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Floydian Slips: Napster vs. Metallica: Music Industry Redefined
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Napster vs. Metallica: Music Industry Redefined. The following is an excerpt—reprinted here by permission—from Greg Kot's new book, Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music. Scribner, $25). They being long tired of homogenized corporate radio playing the same twenty hits (Hotel California, anyone? It tells the story of how the laptop generation created a new grassroots music industry, with the fans and bands in charge.". So much for the big marketing plan. In the land of the major labels...
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Floydian Slips: Freeform Radio Master—Dave Dixon On WABX
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Freeform Radio Master—Dave Dixon On WABX. It was 1967 and, if we were lucky, once in a great while we might hear something cool on AM radio—Buffalo Springfield’s. For What It’s Worth. Being a harbinger of what was to come. In the autumn of that year, Detroit’s WABX-FM began broadcasting. An experimental show, for an hour each week. Inside the Taj Mahal. From Beaver and Krause, Richard Harris singing. And Harry Nilsson’s. Blues From Laurel Canyon. For good measure. Not to be overlooked, Detroit artists.
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Floydian Slips: Oliver Sacks: Musical Minds Airs On PBS' NOVA
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Oliver Sacks: Musical Minds Airs On PBS' NOVA. Music affects more parts of our brains than language does—clearly humans are musical animals. What can music tell us about our minds? And what can our minds tell us about music? Can the power of music make the brain come alive? Can it aid people battling severe neurological disorders? And why did Nietzsche declare that "without music, life would be a mistake? Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Stream this video for free. Now through July 7 only!
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Floydian Slips: Detroit Rock: Dick Wagner, Alice Cooper & Friends
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Detroit Rock: Dick Wagner, Alice Cooper and Friends. Here Comes the Mystery Man. Several weeks ago I was listening to Radio Paradise. When the station proprietor and chief musicologist, Bill Goldsmith. Mentioned guitarist/singer/composer Dick Wagner in connection with Lou Reed. That's interesting," I thought, thinking I might drop Bill a quick note about. Dick Wagner connection. One gets busy, though, and. Rocky Horror Picture Show. Who was a fan? I didn't either. Click the [Listen]. Rock 'N' Roll Music.
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Floydian Slips: The Ash Grove: Mick Jagger Gets the Blues
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The Ash Grove: Mick Jagger Gets the Blues. Recording, guitarist Dave Alvin laments the loss of a favorite Los Angeles club, a venue that should be on the National Register of Historic Places. It would have to be in an urn, however—the Ash Grove burned not once, but three times. Ed Pearl (an uncle of Spirit's Randy California. With Pete Seeger.”. Going forward, stage acts would include Bob Dylan. The Byrds, Canned Heat, Commander Cody. On his way out of the Ash Grove one night, Mick Jagger,. He simply wan...
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Floydian Slips: Flashback: The Summer of Love
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Flashback: The Summer of Love. Waxing Nostalgic -or- Johnny Comes Lately. I recently journeyed to San Francisco to interview for a position at. Published by Ziff-Davis Media. Which used to quote me when I was a PC reseller during those heady days of Windows 3.0. And sister publication to. For which I had a one-time cover story credit and was the Windows tips editor for a few months. Now to be here.in San Francisco.interviewing at. Years ago San Francisco was only something I read about in. The crowd....
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Floydian Slips: Making Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Making Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It's undeniable that the Beatles'. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Is the definitive recording of the social upheaval during the '60s. Behind the scenes, there are many things that make this collection of songs even more remarkable. In Manhattan, Atlantic Records. Had been recording on an eight-track machine. For years, as chronicled in. Tom Dowd: the Language of Music. Yet at Abbey Road Studios. This forced the Beatles' producer, Sir George Martin.
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Floydian Slips: Of Two Johns: Lennon & Sinclair
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Of Two Johns: Lennon and Sinclair. Last weekend we watched. The US. vs. John Lennon. After the show, I told Joanna another Forrest Gumpian. Story from my past. No, I didn't teach Elvis his moves. But it's another of those Six Degrees of Separation. Things that amuse me to no end, especially since the degree of separation—for me, anyway—is usually two or three (four at most). Upper and Lower Egypt. More important, Dave told me he was setting up the gym for a be-in. To occur that Saturday night and. Held a...
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Floydian Slips: Radio Paradise: Eclectic Internet Radio At Its Best
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Radio Paradise: Eclectic Internet Radio At Its Best. After high school, Radio Paradise. S Bill Goldsmith worked for a several radio stations in California and Hawaii. While commercial radio degenerated into an überprofit-controlled conglomerate spewing a highly-distilled, homogeneous listening experience in markets across the U.S., Goldsmith had a plan. His idea—not all that unique to those who remember the heady days of "underground" radio in the '60s. 8212;was that listeners really. The biggest problem...
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Floydian Slips: The Spirit of Randy California
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The Spirit of Randy California. In the Company of Jimi Hendrix. The date was late July, 1969. We've been flashing back to the Grande Ballroom. Where Spirit topped a bill that included one-hit wonders Fever Tree (. San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native). Led by guitar whiz Randy California. Spirit had debuted their first album that past January, with one track,. In regular rotation on Detroit's underground rock stations. In its entirety. Download it here. Critic Jim Washburn,. Manny's Music in Manhatt...