"And now welcome, Mr. Peter Frampton!!!"

I'll never forget the night I sat in the audience anticipating the concert of this newly famed artist. He put on a great show and was so adorable (still is).

I have always felt his talent is under-rated. He's a really good guitarist and songwriter and vocalist! Sadly I think somehow he got looked over because he was so cute and baby-faced and did that totally lame movie "Sgt. Pepper" (does anyone remember that????) Here is a snippet from Dave White's review of Peter's new album:



Peter Frampton - Fingerprints From Dave White, Your Guide to Classic Rock. 'Def Leppard did it with Yeah!. Ozzy Osbourne did it with Under Cover. Peter Frampton is doing it with Fingerprints. "It" is artists recording albums that are tributes to other artists whose music has influenced them. Frampton took it a step further an invited some of those artists to join him on the album. Fingerprints is "the album I’ve been waiting my entire life to make," Frampton said when the album was announced. "I wanted to play with people from all over the world, and I wanted to make the selections as diverse as possible."


Did he succeed? Oh, yeah. Styles range from rock to swing to r&b, blues, and country. Guest players include present and former (respectively) Rolling Stones Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman; Pearl Jam’s Matt Cameron and Mike McCready; original members of The Shadows, Hank Marvin and Brian Bennett; Warren Haynes (Allman Brothers, Gov’t Mule). The guest list also includes several well-known session guitarists Paul Franklin and John Jorgenson, and Courtney Pine on saxophone. Frequent co-writer (and the album's co-producer) Gordon Kennedy is featured, along with Frampton's regular band-mates, John Regan on bass, Arthur Stead on keyboards, and Shawn Fichter on drums."

Awesome Young Drummer

Take one minute and watch this kid (age 11)play drums.

David Amulet's Blog

David never fails to entertain and amuse me with his posts. He's a professional writer, and it shows on his blog. Today he had something very creative that relates to Rock so go check it out!

Tell him Layla sent you :)

Song Title "Quiz"

Just for fun, see how many songs you can list (without doing a search!) with these words in the title. There are at least ten for each one:

“Fool”

"California”

“Dream”

“Gone”

“Girls”

September 23 - Happy 57th Birthday Bruce!

You just keep getting better with age!

Boz Burrell - RIP

I just heard the sad news that Bass player Boz Burrell died on September 21st. I found this out over at Will and Ben's Record Room
and have cut and paste this from their site:

Originally a lead singer of his own band during the 60's Boz joined up with King Crimson in 1971 to play Bass, and then in 1973 formed Bad Company alongside former Free vocalist Paul Rodgers. The band were a major influence on many late 70's and 80's Rock bands including Foreigner, Rainbow, and Whitesnake.

I am disturbed that I can't find more about this in the news. My heart goes out to his friends and family.

HELP NEEDED!

Does anyone know how to get script from running on a page....I don't even know that that means, but I keep getting this thing that pops up and says "script is running on this page" and its slowing done the site.

Thanks.

I love my iPod

$$$$Buy Music$$$$

I just spent too much $$$ on iTunes. I can't believe what I got, but I love it all. I picked out some songs that I needed to complete my collection.

I love music.



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Love Stinks!

You don't hear too much about The J Geils Band. I've seen them a few time (once when they opened for the Tolling Stones).

I would categorize their music as fun, party music. Not a ton of depth to it, but these boys know how to have a good time. They love performing live and engaging the audience in every song.

Most of their stuff is VERY fun to dance to. Here is what they had to say about themselves:

The J. Geils Band got it crazy every night. They got down to it. Did they ever.

History tells us that the year 1967 was all incense and peppermints, paisley and Pepper, and other things groovy. But those lazy, hazy daze also produced one of the world's all time great, hard driving white rhythm and blues show bands.

For the next 15 years-14 albums and what must've been a million gigs - The J. Geils Band, in the words of former lead vocalist Peter Wolf, "felt obligated to give 100 percent of ourselves to our audience. We were a bunch of guys who had the passion and wanted to share it."

"There was a love affair between this band and its audience. We wanted people to know that we were gonna give it all that night", adds Seth Justman, the band's keyboardist, arranger, and later producer, who, with Wolf, co-wrote most of the J. Geils Band original songs. "Whatever we had in the tank, that tank was gonna be empty at the end of the show."

Although they will forever be favorite sons of the city of Boston, most of the J. Geils Band's six members were born and raised in other East Coast cities. By the mid-60's they had each found themselves in Boston with the intent of going to school, but enrolled instead in what Wolf liked to call the College of Musical Knowledge, earning their master's degrees in rock n' soul.

Classic Rock Quiz

I fixed the link to the weird song titles Quiz!

...and just to make myself feel better after getting such a horrible score on that last quiz, I am adding this quiz which I scored 90% on (missed one darn it!)

Try it here. Its pretty easy if you know classic rock.