Archive for 2021/07


Hidden Beach Boys

Spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/3yTqJmz SUMMERTIME BLUES Blue Cheer was not the only group that covered the 1958 Eddie Cochran hit. FARMER’S DAUGHTER Since Mike Love was the frontman, most people thought he sang lead on every song, but this was untrue. “Farmer’s Daughter” is one of my favorite Beach Boys tracks, it takes a trope used […]

Seven Seconds

TRAILER: https://bit.ly/3hyyOqY You’ve got to watch this for the Jersey City/east coast feel. Would I put “Seven Seconds” at the top of your list? Absolutely not. First check off “Borgen,” “The Bureau” and “Spiral,” not to mention many others. But we’re starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel. I’m sick of genre shows. And […]

My Beatles Top Ten

Spotify Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3hwhZ0b 10. DON’T BOTHER ME From “Meet the Beatles” or “With the Beatles” depending upon which side of the pond you were on. Yes, after “Meet the Beatles!” broke we got the rerelease of VeeJay’s “Introducing the Beatles” and not long thereafter Capitol’s “The Beatles’ Second Album” as well as the double-sided single […]

Rick Beato-This Week’s Podcast

Rick Beato has 2.42 million subscribers to his YouTube channel “Everything Music”: https://bit.ly/3hD3MNH He has scores of videos with more than one million views, his “Top 20 Acoustic Guitar Intros Of All Time” has 13 million views! Rick teaches you how to play the songs and analyzes why they’re great or why they’re not. Pull […]