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April 19, 2012
Six-String Pawn Stars: Top 10 Famous Stolen Guitars
Tom Petty got a real kick in the balls late last week when he discovered that his vintage blond 1967 12-string Rickenbacker and his Gibson SGTV Junior had been stolen from a California soundstage where the Heartbreakers had been rehearsing for an upcoming tour. Three other vintage guitars owned by b ... More >>
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April 18, 2012
Don't Play It Again, Sam: More Terrible Remakes Of Great Songs (By The Original Artists)
Rocks Off covered Eric Clapton's "Layla" and several other awful updates in January. Sometimes an artist hits it big with one great song. Real big, real fast. Before they know it, they're the hot-button item, on the lips of the hip and influential across the world. Of course, a sudden rise to fame ... More >>
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April 4, 2012
Tears In Heaven: The 10 Best Songs To Come Out Of Tragedy
Since the dawn of time, great art has been birthed out of great tragedy, happening numerous times with playwrights, artists, and musicians. In many ways, expressing grief through music serves as a healing agent that gets the artist through tough things such as the loss of a loved one. It also helps ... More >>
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March 27, 2012
A Very Special Message: The 10 Best Rock-Star Public Service Announcements
Ever since the Ad Council introduced the "Rosie the Riveter" poster, public service announcements have either warned us of the dangers of such risky behaviors as having unsafe sex, as well as reasons you should vote, or even to spay and neuter your pets. As rock and roll became more popular, artists ... More >>
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January 16, 2012
5 Most Needless Song Updates
We got into rock journalism from being a local musician, so we understand both sides of the industry pretty well. We've recorded songs that later-on we wish we'd done very differently, and the temptation to go back and re-try for perfection can be very overpowering. Take it from us, though, do not f ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Five on Five: Fender vs. Gibson, Who Had the Better Players?
For guitar players, it's an age old question: are you a Fender guy or a Gibson guy? Over the years since both companies became popular in rock music, many other guitar manufacturers have made inroads, but none have been able to surpass the power and tradition of these two giants in the guitar ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
And, Uh, Um, OOPS: The Third Members Of Great Musical Trios You Probably Can't Name
Last night we all watched as Governor Rick Perry blanked on the third department he would do away with if he was elected president. It was one of those moments - a la Scanners - when we all tensely waited for his head to explode, figuratively. Of course we love the guy and he's too precious t ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
The Best Episodes Of MTV's Unplugged
MTV Unplugged was like health food for your soul during its heyday on the music channel, which was full of junk food. When artists stuck to the template and went untethered to electronic instruments and really dug into their music with new eyes it was amazing. Debuting in 1989 with Squeeze ... More >>
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July 4, 2011
1986: Best Musical Year Ever?
For almost two weeks now, Rocks Off has been obsessed with the year exactly 25 flips of the calendar backward from this one. It started when Steve Earle did one of his "Time Machine" shows, where the singer-songwriter who plays House of Blues Wednesday spotlights a dozen or so of his favorite ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
Top 10 Songs To Leave Out Of Your Wedding Reception
'Tis the summer season for tying the knot. But curse the occasion for creating the ultimate breeding ground for bad music - wedding receptions. It's one thing to unplug the jukebox in an act of defiance or flee a venue playing bad songs (I've done all of the above), but one doesn't exactly h ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Bobby Whitlock: Derek's Main Domino Dishes On Layla & More
Derek & the DominosIt's been an active, and retroactive, time for singer-songwriter/keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, best known as one of the playing pieces in the Eric Clapton-led group Derek and the Dominos, along with bassist Carl Radle (who died in 1980) and drummer Jim Gordon, currently in pr ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
Who's Too Old To Rock & Roll?
It's entirely possible that the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney will each go on tour this year. With ages ranging from 63 to 69 among the four remaining core Stones, the band is obviously the oldest continuing touring rock act, capable of breaking ticket records almost 50 years into the gam ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
The Best Concert Movies Of All Time
A quick note before CHL starts this hlist. We define a concert movie as a flick that documents one or more shows on a tour. More narrative-oriented rock flicks like D.A. Pennebaker's Bob Dylan mash note Don't Look Back, Charles Peterson's grunge chronicle Hype!, and of course the lighthearted ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
What Is Classic Rock Today?
What is classic rock in 2010? 15 years ago, it was was the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, anything Eric Clapton touched and every band your dad played in his car while he was making out with the girls he met before your mom. That's how we know classic rock: Big riffs, big voices, in ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
Top 10 Rock Tell-All Autobiographies
Craig's Hlist just cracked into his copy of Life, by Keith Richards. It's the first time that the Rolling Stones guitarist and god among men has taken time to document his rock and roll journey for anyone. Sure there have been Stones oral histories from the band, but this is Richards' chance ... More >>
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October 20, 2010
Six Songs That Shoot First, Ask Questions Later
If there's one musician whose advice is worth heeding, it ought to be Johnny Cash. But when the Man in Black sang "Don't Take Your Guns To Town," a whole lot of musicians must not have been listening. Perhaps they were tuning in one of Cash's other songs that takes a different point of view - ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
Music's Top 10 Biggest Post-Drug Comebacks
The list of drug casualties in rock and roll is a long and sad one. All the suicides, car crashes and the stray gang-related murder are outweighed by the amount of people who just can't stop putting junk into their system, or at least moderate it to a point where they aren't lying cold on a h ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
Sheryl Crow
The list of drug casualties in rock and roll is a long and sad one. All the suicides, car crashes and the stray gang-related murder are outweighed by the amount of people who just can't stop putting junk into their system, or at least moderate it to a point where they aren't lying cold on a h ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
Ten Iconic Musical Nicknames, And 25 You May Never Guess
You know what sucks? Getting saddled with a really awkward family nickname when you are younger and it following you until it takes a frenzied freak-out to stop it. We were once called "Pooter" by our mother until an eight-year-old Rocks Off gave her a terse look right before third grade star ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010
The greatest of guitar greats dazzle during a two-hour film documentary
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April 26, 2010
iFest Closes To An Afro-Cuban-Reggae Beat
Eggs/ breakfastontour.comBaba Maal If the first weekend of the Houston International Festival felt like a detour down Canal Street, the second evoked the festival's emphasis on "Spotlighting the Caribbean." Summer picked this weekend to descend two months early, as it tends to do, resulting in in ... More >>
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March 26, 2010
This Week in Deliciousness
Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where bullet ballistics tests on cantelopes, melons, pineapples, and all manner of fruitstuffs remain inconclusive but really fun. We started the week off with a study into the greatest Easter candies, and of course, the title went to Pe ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where bullet ballistics tests on cantelopes, melons, pineapples, and all manner of fruitstuffs remain inconclusive but really fun. We started the week off with a study into the greatest Easter candies, and of course, the title went to Pe ... More >>
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July 8, 2009
Eyeballin': The Black Crowes' Warpaint Live
To celebrate the release of 2008's Warpaint, the Black Crowes played the entire record straight through for a special series of shows. Already released as a 2-CD set, this DVD of one performance shows why the Crowes are such an effective live unit. Two things immediately jump out. Singer Chris Robin ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
Eyeballin': John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band Live in Toronto '69
It's a story well-told in Beatles lore. Reeling from the Fab Four's unraveling, a bored John Lennon accepted an invitation to perform at the Toronto Rock 'n Roll Revival show in September 1969. He quickly formed an ad hoc group of friends (wife Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton on guitar, Klaus Voorman on bass ... More >>
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June 15, 2009
Remembering 1969, Part 3: The Beginning of the End for the Beatles
Note: see Part 1 here and Part 2 here. For most of 1969, the Beatles were pretty much comatose - after the disastrous Get Back sessions (which would later spawn the Phil Spector-produced Let It Be), they reconvened to the studio that spring to record the music for what would become their final reco ... More >>
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June 11, 2009
Girl Star, Grown Up
Still proud of her family band, Susan Cowsill does her own thing now.
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June 11, 2009
Local Motion: Top Sellers at Cactus Music, Sound Exchange, Soundwaves, Sig's Lagoon and Vinal Edge
Cactus Music 2110 Portsmouth, 713-526-9272 www.myspace.com/cactusmv1. Ryan Bingham, Roadhouse Sun 2. Dave Matthews Band, Big Whiskey & the Groo-Grux King 3. Steve Earle, Townes 4. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest 5. Elvis Costello, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane 6. Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood, Live at Madiso ... More >>
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April 3, 2009
Lost Tuneage: Jerry Lynn Williams
Who Dat? www.myspace.com/jerrylynnwilliamsI'd forgotten about Fort Worth rocker and soul man Jerry Lynn Williams until the other day when I was reading Eric Clapton's autobiography. Warner Bros. had returned Clapton's tapes from sessions in Montserrat and, to keep his Warner's deal, Clapton ... More >>
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April 24, 2008
The Mighty Orq: To the Bone
Who Dat? www.myspace.com/jerrylynnwilliamsI'd forgotten about Fort Worth rocker and soul man Jerry Lynn Williams until the other day when I was reading Eric Clapton's autobiography. Warner Bros. had returned Clapton's tapes from sessions in Montserrat and, to keep his Warner's deal, Clapton ... More >>
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September 25, 2007
Drenched In Blog: National One-Hit Wonder Day
Who Dat? www.myspace.com/jerrylynnwilliamsI'd forgotten about Fort Worth rocker and soul man Jerry Lynn Williams until the other day when I was reading Eric Clapton's autobiography. Warner Bros. had returned Clapton's tapes from sessions in Montserrat and, to keep his Warner's deal, Clapton ... More >>
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September 19, 2007
Get Lit: Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me by Pattie Boyd
Who Dat? www.myspace.com/jerrylynnwilliamsI'd forgotten about Fort Worth rocker and soul man Jerry Lynn Williams until the other day when I was reading Eric Clapton's autobiography. Warner Bros. had returned Clapton's tapes from sessions in Montserrat and, to keep his Warner's deal, Clapton ... More >>
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July 5, 2007
Another Bump
Ten of the best coke anthems, plus a shortlist for the Cocaine Hall of Fame
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June 21, 2007
B.B. King
B.B. King performs on Thursday, June 21, at The Grand 1894 Opera House, 2020 Post Office, Galveston, 800-821-1894. See HouStoned Rocks, the Houston Press music blog, for more about B.B. King.
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February 22, 2007
Musical Food Groups
If singers were cheese, what kind of cheese would they be?
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October 12, 2006
Tech? No!
An imaginary history of electronic music
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February 16, 2006
Swell Guy
An imaginary history of electronic music
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September 23, 2004
A Thin Line...
Introducing the most hated men in rock (besides Sting)
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August 26, 2004
Letters
Introducing the most hated men in rock (besides Sting)
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October 23, 2003
Roll Over, Eric Clapton. And Tell Stevie Ray the News.
The blues is back -- rawer and louder (and punker) than ever
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August 7, 2003
The Crusaders
The blues is back -- rawer and louder (and punker) than ever
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February 6, 2003
Savoy Brown
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May 10, 2001
Playbill
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May 10, 2001
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March 5, 1998
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September 26, 1996
No More Same Old, Same Old
Buddy Guy finally gets the respect he's always wanted
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June 6, 1996
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August 31, 1995
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June 1, 1995
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