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Live at the Fillmore East - Part1

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 17, 2015

It was only open for just over three years but for those years it was the place to play, not just on the East Coast but across the whole of America. A legend in its own lifetime, it played host to the great and good at the cutting edge of the new rock n roll. [...]

The Remarkable Roy Harper

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 16, 2015

His admirers and collaborators have included Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Dave Gilmour, Ian Anderson, Paul McCartney and Kate Bush. His fingerpicking acoustic style is as recognisable as Jimmy Page's bow. He's written some of the most beautiful and uniquely English electric folk. He has recorded without a break of any length of time for more [...]

Forgotten But Fantastic - The Blues Project

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 15, 2015

They weren't active for more than a couple of years - or at least not meaningfully - but for a short-time, this Greenwich Village blues and jam band were touted as New York's Grateful Dead. It didn't last for long, but they enjoyed a short but brilliant period in the mid-1960s that left one awesome [...]

New Orleans Pop Festival 1969

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 12, 2015

Happening just two weeks after Woodstock, the New Orleans Pop Festival 1969is often called Louisiana's Woodstock. But then many festivals around that time were keen to cast themselves in the counterculture glow of the upstate New York zeitgeist. Promoter Steve Kapelow said we expect 15,000 - 20,000 in light of advance ticket sales, but we [...]

Instruments of Rock - The Hammond Organ

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 02, 2015

The Hammond Organ - From 'Green Onions', 'Itchycoo Park' and 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' to Radiohead and the White Stripes, the Hammond Organ is one of rock's most unique and treasured sounds. Here, we take a look at the history of the instrument and celebrate some of its greatest exponents. Laurens Hammond had a [...]

Capricorn Records

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 02, 2015

Capricorn Records was formed in 1969 in Georgia by brothers Phil and Alan Walden and their friend Frank Fenter, Capricorn Records was the label without which the Southern Rock genre would not exist. But as well as giving the world one awesome band in the Allman Brothers and several other really good ones like the [...]

Rickenbacker

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 27, 2015

There is no more beautiful sound in pop than the jangling, sad sunshine of a well played 12-string. And the Rickenbacker is the undisputed queen of those guitars. It is truly one of the instruments of rock. John Lennon began a love affair with Rickenbacker guitars in 1960, when he bought a six-string Model 325 [...]

Donington Monsters Of Rock 1980

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 26, 2015

Donington Monsters Of Rock 1980 - A motor-racing track in Leicestershire might not be the most inspiring venue in the world, but it played host to anyone who is anyone in hard rock and metal for a decade and a half. It is, of course, Castle Donington Raceway and the event is the Monsters Of [...]

The Moog Synthesiser

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 26, 2015

Robert Moog was already making Theremins in the early Sixties when he began developing the technologies that would become the Moog synthesiser. Meanwhile, a composer and music teacher at Hofstra University in Long Island called Herbert Deutsch was fiddling around with Theremins - he built his own from Moog's design in 1962 - as he [...]

Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 25, 2015

Without writing a very large book it would be impossible to do full justice to the polymath and restless creative genius-cum-polymath that is Mr. Todd Rundgren. No one in the history of popular music has achieved quite so much in so many styles and areas of the music business. A brilliant producer, a visionary when [...]

Legendary Venues: Hammersmith Odeon

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 24, 2015

In a hectic, rather unprepossessing part of West London dominated by the A4, a visit to which means a guaranteed traffic jam, morning, noon or night, Hammersmith is not really a place for idling or enjoying the finer things in life. But it does boast a top quality venue that has hosted some of the [...]

Purple Records

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 22, 2015

Would it be unkind to call this a vanity label? Certainly Purple Records put out a lot of material by various band members or hangers-on, and it is fair to say that not all of it would have got a commercial release on a non-Purple-affiliated company. But a lot of the material was excellent in [...]

Dandelion Records

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 21, 2015

There cannot be a rock music fan in the United Kingdom who did not at some point listen to the late John Peel's legendary radio shows. His championing of acts from The Fall to The Undertones to PJ Harvey and the White Stripes helped countless bands on their way. But his own record label is [...]

Pink Floyd Soundtracks

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 20, 2015

With their genius for strange, huge soundscapes, relentless technical invention and mastery of mood, there can be no band in rock better suited for continued excellence on movie soundtracks than Pink Floyd. In 1967, they performed on Tonite Let's All Make Love In London, a documentary about the swinging Sixties, baby, that featured everyone who [...]

Glastonbury Festival 1971

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 19, 2015

Glastonbury Festival 1971 - When Noel Gallagher called the decision to book Jay-Z for Glasto "wrong" he was right, but for the wrong reasons, if you see what we mean. Noel reckoned the festival should be about guitar bands, not hip-hop, which is a point of view - albeit one contrary to the eclectic origins [...]

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