Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: Friends with quirks… Only rarely have I had the chance to spend real social time with the musicians with whom I’ve worked. For the most part,…
The Coasters were part of that era that prefigured the rock revolution of the ’60s. Rock ‘n’ roll was still in its infancy, and harmonies were more potent than a full instrumental arsenal. So when Carl Gardner, lead vocalist of the Coasters — and more recently, a resident of Port…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: Lee attempts to dig the dirt on Dylan I’ve never met Bob Dylan. Never even come close. I’ve seen him live a few times in concert…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: Lee’s abnormal addiction… My name is Lee, and I’m an album addict. It’s a habit that compels me to write every morning before work, every lunch…
Jackson Browne Au-Rene Theater, Broward Center for the Performing Arts Saturday, May 21, 2011 Jackson Browne makes it look so easy. One could almost begrudge the fact that playing an acoustic concert that allows him to select songs on the fly is a really effortless way to earn a paycheck,…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: a retro return in present tense.Last weekend, my past and present collided, and the divide between them was blurred entirely. As a function of my…
The latest offerings from Fernando Perdomo’s Miami-based Forward Motion Records label are impressive, both in terms of substance and variety. They include bows from newcomers Tyler Bernhardt, Jesse Young, Jennifer Kaiser, and Sylvia Emmerson and new discs from three artists worth singling out in particular — Jim Camacho, the Chris…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week, Lee’s most memorable shows ever… I’ve often alluded to my concert experiences in past columns, and indeed, I’ve seen so many shows throughout the years/decades that…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: Lee literally goes off the wall. Autographs are strange commodities. In procuring someone’s signature, you feel like you’ve captured something so intimate and unique that it…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: The Flick Coffeehouse and other old haunts I can’t remember quite so well.There’s something to be said for déjà vu… and music haunts that once…
South Florida may be home to numerous celebs and showbiz stars, but sometimes we overlook others who operated on the other side of the camera — or in the case of Dennis Lambert, the opposite end of the microphone. The Boca Raton resident has written some of the biggest hits…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week, Rocking on the road.”Now we got country and western on the bus/ R and B, we got disco in 8-tracks and cassettes in stereo/ We’ve…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week, a backstage view. It’s been years since I worked backstage at concerts in the music business, and these days I watch concerts from the front…
The Radiators have survived — and thrived — longer than most bands. This New Orleans-based outfit, known for an eclectic blend of rock and blues, features all of its original members — guitarist Dave Malone, vocalist/keyboardist Ed Volker, guitarist/vocalist Camile Baudoin, bassist Reggie Scanlon, and drummer Frank Bua Jr. —…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: My hometown heroes. This week, I’m taking time to give a shoutout to some local artists I’ve gotten to know here in these environs. Rich…
A week-long cruise in the Caribbean and a seven-day music festival featuring top-notch performers may seem hard to combine. But, like our current cover story on the Bruise Cruise proves, setting music afloat on the high seas isn’t so strange any more.Before the Bruise Cruise, though, for the past four…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: An indelible influence. When somebody appears especially down in the dumps, an old adage finds others asking, “What’s wrong? You look like you just lost your…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: Significant others embrace the rock rock regimen.I’m not the first to say that rock and roll and domesticity often don’t make good bed fellows, either…
Although it may initially seem strange, a double bill combining raspy-voiced, spiky-haired dandy Rod Stewart and self-styled earth mother Stevie Nicks actually makes sense. It could serve a purpose, mainly to ease Nicks out of temporary retirement and to bring Roddy back to rock after years of crooning. Indeed, both…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: A sullen Sammy and a beaming Bennett.While most people tend to associate rock ‘n’ rollers with wackiness and eccentricity, I’ve found in my experiences that…
Pipes, fiddles, bodhrans, a jig, and a reel are as essential to Irish music as green is to garments on St. Patrick’s Day. Today, even U2 is passé as far as deflecting the stereotypes is concerned. Fortunately, then, there’s a new crop of Irish émigrés whose irreverence and insurgence are…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: The ABC’s of my stint with ABC. After graduating from college all those many years ago, my great goal in life was to work for a…
