Ginger Baker (1939-2019) October 15, 2019 // 0 Comments Encounter with a touchy rock god By Mark Voger, author “Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop Culture” Cream was one [...]
The Fro/Gaga T-shirt September 21, 2019 // 0 Comments When Mad Jack drummer met ‘Born This Way’ singer By Mark Voger, author “Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in [...]
The Brett Michaels threat July 31, 2019 // 0 Comments I just had a flashback. (I guess that’ll keep happening from here on out.) I’m recalling the time a piece I [...]
Mott the Hoople ’74 banner May 16, 2019 // 0 Comments Still freakin’ on Mott Yup, it’s true: One month and seven days after seeing Mott the Hoople ’74 in [...]
Mott at the Keswick (April 8, 2019) April 13, 2019 // 0 Comments ‘If my wheel could take another turn …’ By Mark Voger | Author, “Groovy” Philly has always been a Mott [...]
Mott the Hoople ’74 T-shirt April 1, 2019 // 0 Comments Making a Mott shirt in 7 steps As both rabid readers of MarkVoger.com are aware, I’m super-psyched to see Mott the [...]
Peter Tork (1942-2019) March 8, 2019 // 0 Comments The nice one By Mark Voger | Author, “Groovy” As people were learning of the death of Peter Tork at age 77 on [...]
Mott the Hoople ’74 tour March 6, 2019 // 0 Comments It’s good for your body, it’s good for your soul By Mark Voger | Author, “Groovy” I am over the [...]
‘What Is Rock and Roll?’ November 10, 2018 // 0 Comments A time machine set for 1977 All these years, it was in a box 3,000 miles away. In 1977, I was a second-semester freshman at [...]
Video vixens July 13, 2018 // 0 Comments Bad instrument aping (but nobody cared) Drivin’ home late one night a coupla weeks ago after getting’ the s*** beat out [...]
Sister Rosetta Tharpe June 15, 2018 // 0 Comments Rock ‘n’ roll’s godmother I been binge-in’ on Sister Rosetta Tharpe lately … this lady was rock [...]
Ron Tortu March 27, 2018 // 0 Comments See Thrust live on April 7 A coupla Sundays ago, I saw an old friend I hadn’t laid eyes on in 11 years: Ron Tortu, who [...]
‘Let Me Down Hard’ soundtrack December 4, 2017 // 0 Comments Greetings from Asbury Park (and environs) By Mark Voger, author, “Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop Culture” [...]
‘Groovy Trailer Theme’ December 3, 2017 // 0 Comments Doo-wop and ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ drums By Mark Voger, author, “Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop [...]
Chris Farlowe August 31, 2017 // 0 Comments His ‘Out of Time’ is out of sight By Mark Voger, author of “Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop [...]
Happy Together 2017 August 7, 2017 // 0 Comments ‘I love the flower girl’ By Mark Voger, author of “Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop Culture” Maybe it [...]
David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ March 28, 2017 // 0 Comments David Bowie’s videos for “Blackstar” and “Lazarus” — which I saw for the first time a week ago, to fulfill a [...]
Chuck Berry (1926-2017) March 25, 2017 // 0 Comments The first time I heard Chuck Berry was in 1972, over a jukebox in Cafeteria II, one of a pair of huge cafeterias at Cherry [...]
‘L.S. Bumblebee’ February 23, 2017 // 0 Comments In, probably, 1975, I bought the bootleg Beatles album “L.S. Bumblee” from a glorified head shop on the boardwalk in [...]
Overend Watts R.I.P. January 31, 2017 // 0 Comments One year and five days after the death of Mott the Hoople‘s drummer, Buffin Griffin, comes the death of the band’s [...]