Feedback.

  "They loved feedback. First one would feedback, then all of them would be feeding back madly, until the song disappeared beneath torr...

Fictional Album Time Again: The OTHER Best Double Album of 1972

Garcia+Weir, 1972-San Franciscans in the UK. Jagger+Richards, 1972-Londoners in the States In a 1991 interview quoted in Blair Jackson's...

Watch Kool-Aid turn into Electric Kool-Aid--Rafelson and Schneider Style

(Oh god, he's delving into film AGAIN?!) If you have a few minutes (which you obviously do if you're reading this), check out the va...

The Monkees influence on Cinema--part 1 of probably 1

Here I go, taking an amateurish dive into the big screen. This is a thought that occurred to me just now, at 8:30 am after dropping the boy ...

Advice for New Bands: Don't All Love the Same Music

 I'll always remember the crestfallen look on my long-time close friend and band mate's face when the realization hit him: "You...

Primitive Noise

This idea came from two directions. First, I'm always a Yoko Ono defender. There were character flaws, but you can't say that they w...

Warlock East, Warlock West. Well hello, Jerry Lou.

 A Tale of Two Mullets in 1989! (but believe me, this post is not really about that. It's just it's..just...WTF? It was a PLAGUE!!!...

Beatles With Ill-Advised Perms

                                                                                                            That's all, really, for now....

Greyfolded (say it fast, aloud).

John Oswald-Canadian Sound Artist  This essay will discuss what, in many ways, is the coolest Grateful Dead album: John Oswald's Grayfol...

There They Go, Walking Down the Street (and Into the Sunset)

The Three-kees. 1969. Photo by Henry Diltz.  Last month, Rhino Records thankfully continued their line of Monkees Deluxe reissues. Some have...