It cemented Randy Rhoads’s reputation and made me like Ozzy Osbourne all at the same time. Yes, I’m one of those naysayers who doesn’t really care that much for the Prince of Darkness in his original band Black Sabbath, I prefer the solo act. But just like that band in its present incarnation is sans […]

College is lonely. At least in the beginning. Especially if you go to a sanctuary far from home, having thrown away all your friends to start over. Oh, I know it doesn’t work that way anymore. I once met a girl on a train. From New York to Boston. We exchanged a few letters thereafter, […]

How many ways did we hate Grand Funk Railroad? Overpromoted by their manager/producer, former artist Terry Knight, they could not possibly live up to the hype. And they didn’t. Supposedly they stole the show at the Atlanta Pop Festival, before Woodstock, and this message was blasted into the hinterlands where no one ever heard any […]

Classic rock is dead. Not only are the children of the baby boomers pushing thirty, in some cases exceeding that threshold, there’s a whole new generation of barely pubescent children who have never experienced free-form radio and sitting in front of the stereo listening to full length albums. And nothing angers the children of the […]