From the website Genesis News, comes the below story of the photo adorning the new “Genesis Revisited II” album by Steve Hackett. You’ll recall that Hackett was Genesis’ guitarist from 1971 to 1977 – their “prog” heyday (Peter Gabriel dressed as a flower or wearing a fox’s head, Phil Collins with long hair and a…
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Jackson Browne’s “Linda Paloma”: A California Mexican Song
“At the moment the music began and you heard the guitar player starting to sing…” With this opening line, Jackson Browne directly invites the listener in to his 1976 song “Linda Paloma”. It’s a song unlike anything else in Browne’s catalog, and not just due to the music. While he’s known for writing subject matter…
Mystery, Reinvention and iamamiwhoami
Everybody likes a good mystery, and while I may have come to it a little late, it’s still an intriguing tangle of threads. A little while back I stumbled upon a video for a song called “Play” by an artist called iamamiwhoami. It struck me as a pretty freaky video and something a little different…
Bob Weston (ex-Fleetwood Mac solo’s, Part 5)
So, this brings us to the final installment of the “ex-Fleetwood Mac solo’s” series. There were more – many more – ex-Fleetwood Mac members. Some are relatively obscure, like Bob Bruning and Dave Walker, and some more well-known like Dave Mason. Even Christine McVie is no longer a member of the group. But, my interest…
Peter Green (ex-Fleetwood Mac solo’s, Part 4)
Peter Green was the founder of Fleetwood Mac and the music he produced with them in their first few years was, in many people’s opinion, miles removed from the later Lindsey Buckingham “pop” oriented days. I would argue that you can draw a pretty straight line from Green to Buckingham, however. In fact, if you…
Danny Kirwan (ex-Fleetwood Mac solo’s, Part 3)
Yes, the early 70’s were not a good time to be a member of Fleetwood Mac. Yet another casualty of those times was guitarist/songwriter Danny Kirwan, fired from the band in 1972. He joined the band in 1968, largely as a guitar foil for Peter Green (since Jeremy Spencer didn’t appear to have much interest…
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