‘What Is Rock and Roll?’
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 [...]
Rock
Video vixens
Bad instrument aping (but nobody cared) Drivin’ home late one night a coupla weeks ago after getting’ the s*** beat out [...]
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Rock ‘n’ roll’s godmother I been binge-in’ on Sister Rosetta Tharpe lately … this lady was rock [...]
‘Let Me Down Hard’ soundtrack
Greetings from Asbury Park (and environs) By Mark Voger, author, “Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop Culture” [...]
‘Groovy Trailer Theme’
Doo-wop and ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ drums By Mark Voger, author, “Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop [...]
Chris Farlowe
His ‘Out of Time’ is out of sight By Mark Voger, author of “Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop [...]
Happy Together 2017
‘I love the flower girl’ By Mark Voger, author of “Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop Culture” Maybe it [...]
David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’
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)
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’
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.
One year and five days after the death of Mott the Hoople‘s drummer, Buffin Griffin, comes the death of the band’s [...]
Asbury Park
The thousand-millionth look at the old sights By Mark Voger, author, “Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze in [...]
How I met Karch
Blogger’s note: The following account of how I met Karch has been refuted by my bassist/brother, Voger. He sez I remember [...]
The Keith Roth interview
Keith Roth plays faded rocker Jack Ainsley in “Let Me Down Hard,” filmed in and around Asbury Park. How they [...]
Keith Roth, movie star
What I always say about Keith Roth is that whichever of the three modes you may encounter him in – “radio Keith,” [...]
NJArts.net benefit March 13
NJArts.net is a much-needed resource in the culture-rich state of New Jersey, a vital go-to source for the bustling arts [...]
Planet Earth is blue
What can I say? David Bowie was a hero. When I first spotted the “Diamond Dogs” album at Franklin Music in the [...]
Buffin Griffin R.I.P.
This is terrible. First Bowie. Now Dale “Buffin Griffin. Who’s next? Steve Harley? Buffin, the drummer for Mott [...]
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