Pino Daniele – Terra mia
We miss Pino Daniele’s music. Terra mia (My homeland) is a collage of old memories, some of them happy, some bitter, but nevertheless fascinating...
Miles Davis – Seven Steps to Heaven
New York. Someone is playing jazz standards in a club. Two lovers are having a sweet slow dance immersed in a timeless cloud of...
The Who – Tommy
Tommy? Yes, indeed. If not the first, then certainly one of the first rock operas, and surely the greatest of them all, whose fame...
Phish – Billy Breathes
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture
(Martin Mull)
If we give credit to the aphorism of Martin Mull (for years erroneously attributed to Frank...
Iron Maiden – Killers
Iron Maiden are like a rite of passage, like the souped up exhaust of a motorcycle, like a cigarette smoked in the school toilets...
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses kicked the door open for guitar music in the late '80s They opened the door for us.
There is a generation...
Primal Scream – Screamadelica
For ten years, I’ve never been able to make up my mind if I’m a punk rocker
or a soul boy, so why not...
Colosseum Live
A Rope Ladder to the Moon
If there’s something that really pisses me of, it’s that in the chaotic world we happen to live in,...
Kiss – Alive!
Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, 16th May 1975
If only I could be one of the Kiss.
Not any Kiss. The here and now Kiss! Tonight’s Kiss,...
Tito Schipa, Jr. – Orfeo 9
Orfeo 9 forever
It was 1974. I was 16 and had a girlfriend who had just given me Tito Schipa Jr’s Orfeo 9 (Orpheus 9),...
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Pina Piccolo – I Would Have Liked To Be patti smith
I would have liked to be
patti smith.
Locks of rebellious
gray hair.
Indomitable
gaunt visage.
The jacket:
the worn-out one
from Horses
that dangles
carelessly
from a shoulder.
And to continue tapping
with your slim...
