Settling Down in Guitartown
Alternative-country fans build a virtual community with its heart in the Triangle By: David Menconi For Raleigh’s News & Observer April 9, 2004 RALEIGH–Music drew Allison Temple to Raleigh. She was living in Hickory and keeping up with the outside world through Postcard, an Internet mailing list dedicated to alternative-country bands such as the Backsliders […]
Review of One Way Out by Tom Clarke, King Biscuit Time magazine
In a scene played out similarly some 150 times in the last 13 years, people of varying ages and walks of life buzz around under the brightly scripted marquee in anticipation of a communal rock ‘n’ roll happening. As I write this, The Allman Brothers Band are on stage two and a half hours south, […]
Allmans Better Than Ever After 35 Years
Chad Berndtson 2 April 2004 / The Patriot Ledger Copyright (c) 2004 Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. ONE WAY OUT, The Allman Brothers Band (Peach/Sanctuary Records) Southern blues rock gods the Allman Brothers Band celebrate their 35th anniversary this year, and for a band whose legal and internal troubles are […]
Carrying on After a Member’s Death
Bands face tough question over how — and whether — to continue By Kevin McKeough 4 April 2004, Chicago Tribune A band is as much a tribe as a working unit. The years of intense creative collaboration, career ups and downs, and traveling together on concert tours often forge bonds that make band mates feel […]
The Live Album’s Revolutionary Evolution
By David Menconi Raleigh News & Observer 28 March 2004 Copyright (c) 2004 by The News & Observer Pub. Co. Bob Dylan’s new “Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall” might look like just another compact disc. But it’s actually a dinosaur on the verge of extinction: the last of the great live albums. That’s not […]
Life Outside the Beacon
By: Bill Thames For the past two weeks, while countless lucky Allman Brothers Band fans have been gathering in New York City, and swarming over the Beacon Theater, those of us left behind were doubtlessly searching for something to take our minds off the concerts that we were missing. This past weekend, while the Allman […]
Kids Listening to their Parent’s Music
By: Edna Gundersen For USA TODAY Jamie Horton, 14, considers himself a fairly savvy music-loving teen. The Los Angeles ninth-grader trawls the Internet for rock discoveries and totes an iPod packed with 3,000 tunes. His favorite band? Queen. Not late-’90s rock outfit Queens of the Stone Age, not late-’80s metal band Queensryche and certainly not […]
Hospitality Sweeties/Left Coast Crew Charity Cosmic Auction Raises $1,210.00 for Hepatitis Research
March 25, 2004 Lisa L. Fishler, Director of Development Hepatitis Research Foundation 553 Salt Point Turnpike Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Re: Beacon Hotel 2004 Dear Lisa: Enclosed please find a check in the amount of $1,210.00 made out to the Hepatitis Research Foundation. This check is donated by the above in the name of Jody Daddio […]
Happy Birthday, ABB!
26 March 2004 – Macon Telegraph Brothers’ birth March 26, 1969. Macon would not be the same without this date. No Duane Allman Boulevard. No Raymond Berry Oakley III Bridge. No GABBAfest. Heck, there is no GABBA. No Hittin’ the Note magazine. Bow down and pay homage. Today marks the 35-year anniversary of the forming […]
Tales from Old T-Shirts
Rock fans recall how they acquired classic threads By Lauren Bishop 22 March 2004, The Cincinnati Enquirer On March 4, we started an unscientific search for the oldest rock T-shirt in the Tristate with an Enquirer article about how celebrities and children of baby boomers are snapping up vintage rock and concert Ts from the […]