bands
Rock n' roll, boy bands, jazz trios, and more; the greats, newbies, and forgotten icons who create our favorite groups.
This Band Brought the Concert Experience Back Delivery Style
The need for live music has been felt by many of us. This drought that the pandemic has caused for people; myself included, who used to frequent concerts regularly is real. I’ve been going to concerts since I was a teenager. Saving my money to travel between California and Arizona to see my favorite bands live became a lifestyle that I was not ashamed of. I didn’t care if I’d already seen my favorite bands live twice or sometimes three times in one year. My mom would always say “You’re going to see them again?” Yes, mom! It wasn’t just a want it became a need. I made myself familiar with the barricade and knew the perfect spots to stand where I wouldn’t get sucked into the mosh pit. Tricks and trades you learn as you become a frequent concert-goer.
By Mandy Raquel5 years ago in Beat
The Story of The Stools
Popular legend, or at least Boris Scilley writing in Cadenza Magazine, has it that in the spring of 1952 a half bright guitar player named Elvin Anderson went down to the crossroads of Highway 61 and Highway 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, grip and guitar in hand, and waited. It was the same spot where, some 21 years earlier, Robert Johnson had made a deal with a rakish devil named Ike Zinnerman to learn how to play the blues.
By Lance Norris5 years ago in Beat
The Story of The Stools
Back in 1950 Hank Williams came off the road and went to visit his wife, Audrey, in the hospital. She was suffering from the aftermath and infection from a self-administered abortion. Like Hank, she had no compunction about knocking boots when her spouse wasn’t around and the rumor around the whiskey cooler was that Florida Bandleader and general dickhead Pappy Neil McCormick was the father. He was a steel guitar player and fronted his band The Hawaiian Troubadours (so called to hide the fact they were all Creek Indians and not exotic Pacific Islanders).
By Lance Norris5 years ago in Beat
The Story of The Stools
The savage and heartless Story of The Stools really starts in the early 1950's, before there was even a band. American Folklorist and ethnomusicologist, a musical grave robber of sorts mewling for his daddy’s approval, Alan Lomax was collecting field recordings in the deep south, unaware Congress had cut off funding for the Library of Congress' folk song collection some ten years earlier.
By Lance Norris5 years ago in Beat
