Mike Chapman Playlist – Spotify ‘Ballroom Blitz” The Sweet 1973 Oh yeah, it was like lightning Everybody was fighting And the music was soothing And they all started grooving This was when you did your best not to listen to AM radio, but not every automobile possessed the FM band, so you’d hear this confounding […]

Tin Foil Hat – Spotify This is the best track on Todd Rundgren’s new album, “White Knight.” But if I didn’t tell you that, you’d think it’s a new Steely Dan cut, and the irony is it’s better than anything Steely Dan has done since 1980, it could use a few more changes, but it’s […]

Gregg Allman – Spotify They finally caught the midnight rider. How big was the Allman Brothers Band? They HEADLINED the biggest rock festival to date, Watkins Glen, with 600,000 attendees. The Band opened, but their hits and impact were in the past, and out of steam they broke up just a few years later. The […]

The Sgt. Pepper Remix – Spotify It’s sacrilegious. Couldn’t they leave well enough alone? Do the Beatles need any more money? Isn’t Capitol/Universal flush enough? How dare they mess with our memories. Assuming you were there the first time around, when “Sgt. Pepper” engrossed us and changed our perceptions of what was and what could […]