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Shawn Colvin – Steady On
(Album ©1989, Columbia Records) As mentioned previously, college was a time of lots of musical discovery for me, as I would assume it is for most people. Lots of new people from different parts of the country with different influences and backgrounds, and lots of local music scenes, to share. Having my roommate, Steve, was…
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Fishbone – Truth And Soul
The first 7 most influential albums have all been ones that are now considered “classic rock,” but as I mentioned previously, college was where I started broadening my tastes and opening myself up to different genres and less mainstream bands. My roommate for three of the four years at UVM, Steve, was a big part…
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Guns-N-Roses – Appetite For Destruction
So far, if you’re following along, we’ve gotten through high school. Van Halen joined Bruce, The Stones, The Kinks, and The Who as my favorite bands – all of whom I got to see live at least once. 102.7 WNEW-FM was my station, playing the ’60’s – ’80’s rock-n-roll before it was labeled “classic rock.”…
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Van Halen – Van Halen
Bruce, The Kinks, The Stones and The Who got me through Middle School, but by 1983, I knew there was other exciting music out there. I had already picked up on snippets of harder rock, from Rush (“Tom Sawyer”) and the aforementioned Kiss to Queen and AC/DC (“Back in Black,” “For Those About To Rock”)…
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The Kinks – Give The People What They Want
I used to spend a lot of time with my aunt Deane & uncle Howie – we’ve been really tight since I was a little kid. So spending a weekend afternoon with them in NYC was a semi-regular event. One Saturday in early 1982, I was at their apartment on the Upper West Side. We…
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Bruce Springsteen – The River
I’m tracing my musical evolution with you chronologically, so you might find it surprising that Bruce was not the first but the fourth step in that journey given my deep love of his music. And this step is due to my family’s influence. Some of you may know that my mom’s sister is a pretty…
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Cheap Trick – At Budokan!
I first heard this record in 1979, the only summer I ever went to sleep-away camp (Lincoln Farm, in Roscoe, NY – home of the marginally famous Roscoe Diner). One of the counselors had a boom-box and played this tape just about every afternoon while I was in the Art Barn doing some craft or…
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Living Colour – Vivid
Today, I wanted to review one of the best debut albums in all of rock-n-roll, which sometimes gets overlooked – Living Colour’s album Vivid. Some of you may know that I have a hard rock side of me that lives happily alongside the more dominant classic rock persona, and it was fairly prevalent during high…
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Kiss – Rock & Roll Over
This record is the first rock and roll record I ever owned. It came out in late 1976, and I heard it soon after when a second-grade classmate (TJ Rapaport, where are you?!) brought it in for show-and-tell. Up to that point, I had really only heard The Beatles and a lot of Motown that…
