Judging by the name alone, I assumed The Dave Rawlings Machine was going to be an over-indulgent explosion of notes, runs, riffs and scales by one of my favorite guitarists ever. And truth be told, I was okay with that. Rawlings, who has been Gillian Welch’s accompanist ever since the two met at Berkley...
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Several years ago, somewhere ten miles or so east of New York City, on the side of the Long Island Expressway in Queens, a billboard for the city’s only classic rock station, Q-104, read, “Keep On Rockin’ in the Free World.” The billboard was facing west but was meant for the commuters heading east...
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Phoenix—Last night, at the University of Phoenix Stadium, during a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performance, audience member, Gary Hackenbush, was overheard telling his friend, Paul Danberryski, he once saw the band, Government Mule, and loved them. The person who overheard the conversation chose not to be identified, but seemed a little annoyed by...
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AUSTIN–On Thursday July 9, 2009, reporter for the Umpteenth Times, Barry Blain, wrote an article addressing the aging of folk-rock artist, Neil Young. After a phone call from an anonymous source, some investigation into the legitimacy of the story revealed that it was actually Paul Simon that was discovered to be growing old, not...
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Cleveland-After a performance last night at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, it was discovered by Cleveland resident and onlooker, Gregg Danglebink, that legendary folk-rock artist, Neil Young is, well, old. “I never would’ve thought it,” said Danglebink. “I’m so used to seeing the pictures on his CDs that I just never thought...
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TULSA, OK—After almost fourty years of regular rotation on America’s classic rock radio stations, Neil Young’s tribute to the sweet taste of youth, “Sugar Mountain,” is being banned, due to its mentioning of “sugar,” a sweetener now associated with child obesity, as well as diabetes. The ban was the brainstorm of the Center for...
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