Ringo Starr caused quite a bit of consternation several months back when he abruptly announced that he would no longer sign autographs for his fans. It was an odd move and uncharacteristically curt for a man who’s never shunned the spotlight. It also fueled the ire of those who were…
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 takes his cue and ducks when duty calls My entertainment encounters weren’t always limited to the music biz. I briefly tried my hand at…
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 hops across the pond and invites himself to breakfast at Rod Stewart’s.During the summer of 1971, I traveled overseas on my own, landing in…
Some claim that since jettisoning the Police, Sting’s music has lost its, well, sting. After all, here’s an artist on the front lines of the new-wave rebellion in the late ’70s who gradually acquiesced to a mellower template comfortably nestled in adult contemporary. Like Elvis Costello, another seasoned survivor of…
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: Reflections from the road…During the ’70s and ’80s, I had ample opportunity to experience a brief snippet of life on a tour bus, both as…
Granted, Ted Nugent’s picture isn’t likely to show up in the dictionary as an example of the word “humble.” As an advocate for insurgency, draped in the guise of a rock ‘n’ roll outlaw, he’s never identified with the brooding, introspective image assumed by others of his era who forever…
Ex NorwegianSketch www.exnorwegian.com Only two albums in, the band that evolved out of the unlikely named Father Bloopy has struck the mother lode with an effort that ranks as a genuinely substantial early accomplishment. In fact, let’s be so bold as to suggest it brings to mind another disc produced…
Paul McCartney, Stanley Clarke and Jack Bruce aside, bass players rarely get respect. So it’s no surprise that Pete Quaife, who died June 24 from kidney failure, was never consider a front line player in the Kinks, the band he helped anchor from 1963-1969. Quaife didn’t sing lead and he…
Ted Nugent’s bad-boy persona is stamped with a sneer and a swagger that defines the distance between him and other rockers from the late ’60s and early ’70s. The difference is clear not only in his unapologetic disdain for drugs and his unabashed enthusiasm for guns but also his conservative…
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: Witnessing a Beach Boys brouhaha. The Beach Boys have always been a band wracked by contradictions. Although outwardly exuding vibes beaming with sunshine and harmony,…
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: Bob Dylan stumbles, Roger Daltrey fumbles, Keith Moon crumbles… but the band(s) play on!Some of the most memorable concerts I’ve attended are those in which…
Anyone with any doubt about the broad appeal of country music need look only to Brooks & Dunn for proof of its popularity. Aside from the fact that they’re the biggest selling duo in the genre’s history, they’re also credited with outselling every other musical duo overall, competition that includes…
Neil Young initiated one of the most barbed exchanges in rock ‘n’ roll history with “Southern Man” and “Alabama,” two scathing indictments of segregation and Southern sins. Pride rankled, Lynyrd Skynyrd jumped to its homeland’s defense and responded with “Sweet Home Alabama,” etching a classic-rock standard and ripping Young a…
Neil Young initiated one of the most barbed exchanges in rock ‘n’ roll history with “Southern Man” and “Alabama,” two scathing indictments of segregation and Southern sins. Pride rankled, Lynyrd Skynyrd jumped to its homeland’s defense and responded with “Sweet Home Alabama,” etching a classic-rock standard and ripping Young a…
Anyone with any doubt about the broad appeal of country music need look only to Brooks & Dunn for proof of its popularity. Aside from the fact that they’re the biggest selling duo in the genre’s history, they’re also credited with outselling every other musical duo overall, competition that includes…
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: Rooting on Bob Marley and the Wailers.Back when the music business incorporated major labels, brick-and-mortar record stores, physical formats in lieu of MP3s, and money…
James Taylor and Carole King BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise Saturday, June 5, 2010 There’s no song with a title that mentions “Memories” anywhere within the combined repertoire of James Taylor and Carole King, even though they share so more sentimental songs in common. In fact, it’s hard to find even a…
After more than four decades, numerous personnel changes, and a musical trajectory integrating blues, rock, prog, folk, classical, and practically every other genre either straddling or circumventing pop’s progress over the past 40 years, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson has remained the band’s leader and musical mainstay. His iconic image as…
After more than four decades, numerous personnel changes, and a musical trajectory integrating blues, rock, prog, folk, classical, and practically every other genre either straddling or circumventing pop’s progress over the past 40 years, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson has remained the band’s leader and musical mainstay. His iconic image as…
Talk about déjà vu — it’s starting to seem like the early ’70s all over again… with the nation polarized by internal rage and fierce divisions, American troops bogged down in yet another never-ending conflict, another Nixon running for office (yup, Tricky Dick’s grandson’s making a bid in Connecticut), and…
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 call from a KingI was always enamored with the music of Carole King, both as a songwriter (“Locomotion,” “Chains,” “Take Good Care of My…
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: Memories of meetings with the dearly departed.Back while I attended the University of Miami, a friend of mine, Jim Fischel, organized a blues festival. It…
