"I’ll Be Creepin’"Three Dog Night I hold you in my arms, like nobody elseWhen I know we’re apart, I won’t take no less If Paul Rodgers had died, he’d be an icon. Ironically, Paul Kossoff did and is not.  Because he didn’t quite live long enough, his post-Free career was only beginning when he O.D.’ed, […]

God gave rock and roll to youGave rock and roll to youSave rock and roll for everyone Argent – God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll To You I had one of those days where every song on the radio triggered a memory.  I got in this mood.  I felt like I was thirteen years old. I […]

One of these days, I’m gonna write about James Brown.  Actually, I started twice.  Telling the story of how a white boy learned about the black experience.  I’ll append my two attempts.  Neither of which get to the point of working on the South Side of Chicago in the summer of ’69 as a playground […]

So we fired up Monica’s boxed set of the Monterey Pop concerts.  She and Felice wanted to relive their past.  After all, they went when they were just fifteen, without their parents knowing. And I expected nostalgia.  I didn’t expect to be overwhelmed.  I didn’t expect to be jetted back to another era, when music […]