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Guilty Pleasures: The Beach Boys

June 3, 2010
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Part 2 – The Warmth of the Sun I could come to the neat conclusion that the Beach Boys are part wonderful, part terrible and some strange, and leave it at that.  But there’s a deeper truth hiding in their contradictions.  The Beach Boys are the quintessential American band.  Not just because they sold more…

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Guilty Pleasures: The Beach Boys

June 1, 2010
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Part 1 Given the fallen state of Rock music in recent decades, I felt it my duty as a father to try to turn my sons on to some of the great stuff of Rock’s golden age in the ‘60s.  I was pleased when they went enthusiastically for the Beatles, Dylan, Motown and Hendrix with…

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Fishin’ Blues Part 2: Ear Candy

May 22, 2010
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Part 2: Ear Candy “Hand me my old guitar
 Pass the whiskey round Won’t you tell everybody you meet that the Candyman’s in town Look out, look out, the Candyman Here he come and he’s gone again” – Hunter, Garcia At the beginning of the ‘80s, I began hearing a new term: Ear Candy…

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Ten ’60s albums that changed everything

May 12, 2010
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1.Blonde on Blonde (Bob Dylan) It’s soaked in what the master himself called “that wild mercury sound.” Reasons it’s stupendously great? “Visions of Johanna,” “Sad Eyed Lady,” “Just Like a Woman” – enough right there.  Oh yeah, and “Memphis Blues Again,” “I Want You,” “Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat”… 2. Blue (Joni Mitchell)* OK, it came…

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