Summer and the Essex Green. It’s a good combo. The vintage yet timeless sound of the band is like the warm sun on those forested Vermont mountains where they first strummed their instruments years ago. It’s been a long time coming for band members Sasha Bell, Jeff Baron and Chris Ziter – 12 years, to…
Tag: The Beatles
“The Beatles Lyrics”, by Hunter Davies
There are reportedly over 2,000 books about the Beatles. I’ve read probably between five and ten of them. Not a whole lot by some standards, but – along with the many print and online articles I’ve read over the years – I’ve got a fair to very good knowledge of the band. Yet, Hunter Davies’…
“Imagine There’s No Beatles” by Charlie Bermant (book review)
What would Jimi Hendrix be doing now if he hadn’t died in 1970? Would he have moved in a jazz direction and turned his back on mainstream rock? How about Jim Morrison? Abandoned music to become an expatriate poet in Paris? What about Janis Joplin? Nick Drake? Kurt Cobain? Speculative music journalism is a small,…
School Bus Memories
It’s funny how we associate certain songs with certain times in our lives. There’s a whole batch of songs, that, whenever I hear them take me back to 1982 and riding the school bus to school each day. I was about 14 and the ride was about 20 minutes each way, through the rolling wooded…
The Beatles vs. Kiss?
In about 6th grade, one of the classes I was in divided itself into Beatles fans vs. Kiss fans. One had to choose which band they liked better – and the class was pretty evenly divided (this was about 1978 or 1979 after all – the height of Kiss’s popularity). I liked Kiss, but didn’t…
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