Happy Birthday, Peter Frampton!
Image Source Peter Frampton was born on this date, April 22nd in 1950. One of the most exhilaratingly memorable concerts I attended as a rebel youth was the 1976 co-headlining mega-tour featuring...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Rick Wakeman!
Rick Wakeman, enigmatic and Arthurian keyboard player for Yes, was born on this day, May 18th, in 1949. Favorite massively overwrought Wakeman-era keyboard riff from a song by Yes: the climax to...
View ArticleRecommended Listening: Little Barrie, King of The Waves
America has, so far, welcomed two highly influential British Invasions of Rock & Roll. In the early sixties, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, along with countless Mersey Beat bands, laid the...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Steve Howe!
Image Source Yes guitarist (also a member of Asia) Steve Howe was born on this day April 8th, in 1947. The band Yes was a passionate favorite of mine growing up in the seventies. In fact, one of the...
View ArticleRIP Sherman Hemsley, Gong Fan
Image Source Best known for his role as George Jefferson on the popular 1970s sitcom, The Jeffersons (a spinoff of All in the Family, on which he also starred as the same character), actor Sherman...
View ArticleMorrison Hotel Gallery Presents The Melody Maker Photography of Barrie Wentzell
Apparently, Jimi Hendrix Always Dressed Like This (all Post Photos By Gail, Click any Image to Enlarge) Every picture tells a story. During his career, Photographer Barrie Wentzell collected an...
View ArticleYes, It Exists: Hello Kitty Tie Fighter
Image Source From Hello Kitty Hell: Just when you think that everything that could possibly be branded with the evil feline [already has been], something else ends up in my email box. Once again, Star...
View ArticleYes Octopus Mural in DUMBO
All Photos By Gail In September of 2103, NYC-based design firm Sagmeister & Walsh was commissioned by the DUMBO Improvement District in partnership with Two Trees Management Co and the NYCDOT...
View ArticleRIP Yes Bassist Chris Squire
Image Source Ultimate Classic Rock reports that Chris Squire, legendary Bass player for the progressive rock band Yes has died (June 28th) after a battle with Leukemia. He was 67 years old. This kills...
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