For The Who, the question as to how to follow Tommy was not so much "Who" as "What's Next?"
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Music Review: Jeff Beck – Truth, and The Jeff Beck Group – Beck-Ola Enhanced Editions
Somewhere in another life, the original Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood could have well turned out to be Led Zeppelin.
Read More »Music Review: The US vs John Lennon Motion Picture Soundtrack (CD)
Are there better career retrospectives of John Lennon out there? Sure. But none capture Lennon the "national threat" like this Soundtrack does.
Read More »TV Review: Cold Case – Season Premiere
With the most effective use of music in its stories since Miami Vice, Cold Case is as smart as TV cop dramas get.
Read More »Music Review: The Black Crowes Who Killed That Bird Out On Your Window Sill… The Movie(DVD); Freak ‘N’ Roll.. Into The Fog-All Join Hands The Fillmore, San Francisco (CD)
I always knew the Black Crowes were probably this good, but I have honestly never heard them sound as good as they do on Freak 'N' Roll.
Read More »Music Review: Bob Seger – Face The Promise
Bob Seger has always had it exactly right. Hit 'em where they live. But don't hammer 'em over the head.
Read More »Music Review: Electric Light Orchestra – On The Third Day, Face The Music, A New World Record (Remastered Versions)
Nobody quite mixed the ambitious reach of seventies symphonic rock, with the ear for a great pop hook the way Jeff Lynne's ELO did.
Read More »Music DVD Review: The Old Grey Whistle Test Vol. 3
Old and grey, my fifty-something ass! Here's a collection of rare performances that were the true "whistle test" of classic rock.
Read More »DVD Review: Eric Clapton – Live At Montreux 1986
Shut the hell up and play already. And on this night at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Eric Clapton and Phil Collins did exactly that.
Read More »Music Review: Alice In Chains – The Essential Alice In Chains
A new double disc anthology from Sony ponders the question "what might have been?" if only Alice In Chains' Layne Staley had lived.
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