Month: August 2018

The Kinks’ Dave Davies Announces New Album of Unreleased Solo Material | Pitchfork

August 23, 2018 webcatt_admin

The Kinks’ Dave Davies, 1975, photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images

The Kinks’ Dave Davies has announced a new album of unreleased solo material. Decade arrives October 12 via Red River Entertainment/Green Amp. It includes works recorded from 1971 to 1979. Listen to the record’s lead single, “Cradle to the Grave,” below.

“I am so pleased that after all this time these tracks are being released to see the light of day,” Davies said in a statement. “These songs have been silently nagging at me to be recognised all these years. At last I can proudly present this album Decade to the world.” Davies’ last solo album, Rippin’ Up Time, was issued in 2014.

Source: The Kinks’ Dave Davies Announces New Album of Unreleased Solo Material | Pitchfork

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Motley Crue: the man who claimed he replaced Nikki Sixx | Louder

August 23, 2018 webcatt_admin

The Bizarre Life & Sad Death Of Nikki Sixx’s Doppelganger

Matthew Trippe died in December 2014. You may not recall his name immediately – if you even recall it at all – but for a while in 1988, the story he had to tell was one of the strangest of a long, strange era. Trippe claimed that earlier in that crazy decade, he had replaced Nikki Sixx as the bass player in Mötley Crüe.

Not as a stand-in or a new member, but as a doppelgänger chosen for his physical resemblance to the ‘original’ Nikki, just after the latter had been injured in a car accident and at the exact point that Mötley Crüe began the meteoric rise that would end with them becoming one of the biggest rock bands in America.

It was a story that brought Trippe a brief, bright notoriety but one that came to shadow the rest of his life, which faded in a long, slow and sad decline. It began, he said, in 1982, when he left home in Erie, Pennsylvania and moved to Los Angeles, where he met guitarist Mick Mars, who brought him into Mötley Crüe because the other Nikki had been injured in a car accident. It was a wild year that would conclude with Matthew in jail for armed robbery, abandoned by the band and their manager Doc McGhee, and with the original Nikki Sixx back in place.

Source: Motley Crue: the man who claimed he replaced Nikki Sixx | Louder

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Nana na naaa! How Hey Jude became our favourite Beatles song | Music | The Guardian

August 22, 2018 webcatt_admin

The Beatles in February 1968, the year Hey Jude was written. Photograph: Rex Features/Blackbrow

You could argue forever about which of the Beatles’ songs is the greatest. According to the Daily Telegraph, it’s something nostalgic: In My Life. According to the NME, it’s something psychedelic: Strawberry Fields Forever, which wasn’t even the best song on the single it appeared on, alongside Penny Lane. According to Rolling Stone and USA Today, it’s something epic: A Day in the Life, which often does well in polls, perhaps because it’s written by both Lennon and McCartney.

The debate is diverting but doomed. The Beatles’ range was so broad that it would be easier to name Matisse’s best painting or Meryl Streep’s best performance – which wouldn’t be easy at all. This isn’t just apples and oranges, it’s the whole fruit stall, so if we must use superlatives, we’d better narrow them down. The most covered Beatles song is Yesterday, the biggest seller is She Loves You and the biggest crowdpleaser is Hey Jude.

Source: Nana na naaa! How Hey Jude became our favourite Beatles song | Music | The Guardian

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Beatles song mystery solved using statistics | The Star

August 16, 2018 webcatt_admin

HALIFAX—Researchers from Canada and the U.S. have used math to unravel one of the greatest musical mysteries of the modern era: Who wrote “In My Life,” a nostalgic rock ballad on the Beatles’ 1965 album “Rubber Soul.”

It’s a song both John Lennon and Paul McCartney have taken credit for, sparking an enduring debate on the authorship of the melody and chords.

This 1966 file photo shows The Beatles, from left, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison as they leave London Airport on their trip to the U.S. and Canada. Researchers from Canada and the U.S. have used mathematics to unravel one of the greatest musical mysteries of modern era: Who wrote In My Life, a nostalgic rock ballad on the Beatles' 1965 album Rubber Soul.

Source: Beatles song mystery solved using statistics | The Star

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How John Lennon Ended Up in an Ad for a Guitar He Only | Reverb News

August 13, 2018 webcatt_admin

It was Beatlemania gone mad around Christmas 1964. The Beatles played a residency of seasonal shows at a theatre in West London from Christmas Eve right through the first few weeks of the new year. Paul played his Hofner bass, Ringo thrashed a Ludwig set, George switched between his Rickenbacker 12-string, a Gretsch Country Gent, and a Gretsch Tennessean, and John played his Rickenbacker 325.

Until, that is, John got so caught up in all the excitement that he managed to do some serious damage to his workhorse Rick, dropping it off the Hammersmith Odeon stage.

Lennon plays his Rickenbacker 325 on the Ed Sullivan show in 1965.

Startled, John gave the guitar a quick once-over, turning it quickly this way and that. Relieved, he decided it looked alright.

But when he went to play the guitar at the following night’s performance, he found the more he played it, the more it went out of tune. Between songs, he took a closer look, and to his horror he noticed a crack going from the nut around the back of the headstock. Oh dear, he thought. Or words to that effect. What to do? Rose-Morris to the rescue.

Source: How John Lennon Ended Up in an Ad for a Guitar He Only | Reverb News

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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young May Reunite Over The One Thing They Hate More Than Each Other

August 13, 2018 webcatt_admin

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young May Reunite Over The One Thing They Hate More Than Each Other

George Pimentel / WireImage / Getty Images

Wait…What?

Folk rock supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young have had an on again-off again relationship that’s nearly as famous as their music, their feuds stretching on for decades; in fact, Neil Young and Graham Nash aren’t on speaking terms with bandmate David Crosby as of 2018, though Young did say he wouldn’t quite rule out a reunion with Crosby after the 76-year-old walked back negative comments made about Young’s girlfriend, Daryl Hannah. Though it’s not likely that these four will ever hang out and reminisce about old times, it does look like Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young are willing to set aside their dislike for each other in favor of a reunion against the one thing they really don’t like: President Donald Trump.

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In an interview with Billboard, David Crosby outlined exactly why the possibility of a CSNY reunion isn’t too far out of the realm of possibility and why the 60s rock legends feel their presence is needed once again:

“We don’t get along, and we haven’t gotten along for a while. They’re all mad at me. But they all dislike Donald Trump very much, the same way I do. We dislike him intensely because he’s a spoiled child who can’t do his job.

So a reunion is possible. We don’t like each other, but we like Trump a whole lot less.”

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