I’ve often bemoaned the sorry state of Rock music and wished that someone would have the croutons to release an album like those that dominated the landscape back in the ‘70s. Back then when bands like Deep Purple, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin strode the earth Rock was king. The music was majestic, empowering, and so [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 18, 2009
Go With What You Know
Remember those stupid Nigerian lottery scams that were in the news a couple of years ago? Plenty of Australians were caught up in that incredible fraud. The more implausible the scenario, it seems, the greater the likelihood that people will fall for it. When P.T. Barnum said there is a sucker born every minute, he [...]
July 11, 2009
Electric Dirt
It was my sister, Cheryl, who introduced me to the music of The Band, around forty years ago when she presented me with a copy of “Rag Mama Rag”. She had remained in Adelaide to finish her schooling, while I was transported to a mining outpost in the cultural gulag of Dampier, in northwestern W.A. [...]
July 4, 2009
Willie And The Wheel
As an impressionable teenager, I had a jaundiced opinion of certain kinds of music. Growing up with a steady stream of new releases from The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, for example, made it easy to identify the music I did not need to hear. Back then people still called it Country & Western. As [...]
