Category Archives: rock

PATH THROUGH THE FOREST by The Factory 1968

March 25, 2013 – 6:50 pm

PATH THROUGH THE FOREST is an unknown classic from psychedelic UK. It came from a seven song LP. I have no idea about the band members. This song rocks. To hear PATH THROUGH THE FOREST by The Factory, please go to the following URL

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Sounds of Massachusetts

March 18, 2013 – 7:08 pm

A 2007 article by Laura Barton in the UK Guardian suggested that the Modern Lovers ROADRUNNER should be the state song of Massachusetts. Such a good idea took time to fester in the minds of Bay State residents, but a local politician picked up the torch for the underground hit extolling riding on “Route 128 [...]

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

March 1, 2013 – 8:11 pm

I’m not a church-goer and if I hear church music I turn off the station, but banning Sister Rosetta Tharpe from my ears would be a sacrilege. This guitar-playing churchlady was credited with the first rock song in 1942. She was ahead of her times and everyone else too. Sister Rosetta weren’t no beauty, but [...]

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Hurrah Punk Nightclub

October 23, 2012 – 1:33 pm

Hurrah disco on West 62nd Street died after the opening of Studio 54. The owners experimented with a dance club featuring mainstream rock with video monitors hanging from the ceiling. When this scheme didn’t work, the owners called on Jim Fouratt to animate the ex-dance studio and the impish impresario booked punk and new wave [...]

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Whiskey A Go Go

October 22, 2012 – 7:13 pm

I saw this poster somewhere and thought, “How cool.” Th Whisky à Go-Go on the Sunset Strip was made famous by the mini-skirted DJ Rhonda Lane, who danced in a cage during Johnny Rivers’s set, thus giving birth to the go go girl. The Miracles scored a 1966 hit with GOING TO A GO GO [...]

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