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Hurray for Jeff “Nigel Tufnel” Beck

Heart Full of Soul – The Yardbirds Over under Sideways Down – The Yardbirds Stroll On – The Yardbirds The Yardbirds of course at one time featured the incendiary guitar work of gods in waiting, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. God I hate when I hear that crap. Clapton might have done some …

Pete Townshend hearts Roger Daltrey

Usually rock bands are a group of friends, who become famous, fight over power and money and wind up hating each other, especially when they have to hang up their pride in order to put on a smile during their cash in reunion tour. I’d give anything to be a fly on the wall backstage at …

Are you going to watch Beavis and Buckhead?

The number of women who have been related to me and willing to spoil me beyond belief is probably what makes me the fantastic failure that I am today. I’ve both been well loved and well coddled. As I said, I lived with my Grandparents for a while – It was during my blue period …

Wow – American Idol has done good things

And I don’t mean in a Hitler loved dogs way either. Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” hit number one because a stoned Spanish kid dug it and sang it on that show. Decide yourself if that and and this song about the inspiration of Patti Smith make you forgive them for creating the term Faux-hawk. Stolen from …

Katy Perry’s in Vogue!

I just heard that Madonna said her new favorite song was Katy Perry’s “Ur So Gay.” Quite the complement because Perry’s video for “I Kissed a Girl” isn’t just a slight Madonna homage, it’s practically a Madge’s greatest poses retrospective. Has any song not by Madonna been so cravenly and crassly produced as Katy’s video? The director has to …