by talkfromtherockroom | Apr 19, 2023 | Between the Lines, Reviews
A recent and worthy addition to the lexicon of rock and roll composition is archivist and writer Edoardo Genzolini’s new book on British supergroup Cream. His text, Cream: Clapton, Bruce, and Baker – Sitting on Top of the World, San Fransisco, February...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 4, 2022 | Rock Room Reconstruction
Today in the “rock room” we undertake a reconstruction of a yet underrepresented player of the “Country Rock” era of the mid to late 1960’s. Michael Nesmith, singer, songwriter, renaissance man of the Monkees, attempted to bring the country music aesthetic of his...
by talkfromtherockroom | Mar 26, 2022 | Reviews
It’s mid June 1968 at the Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, California. Tim Buckley is performing two opening sets for ‘It’s a Beautiful Day’ and ‘Booker T and the MG’s. He is in the midst’s of arguably his most creative era....
by talkfromtherockroom | Jun 22, 2021 | Live Reviews, Put the Boot In, Reviews
As Summer turned to Fall in 1968, a gathering of tribes and a collaborative of some of the most famed musicians on the planet joined as one at a nondescript berry farm in Sultan, Washington. The purpose, a cosmic weekend of mind-bending music. The Sky River Rock...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 1, 2020 | Now Showing, Reviews
Now Playing in the ‘rock room’ is one of the finest substantial slabs of the 1960’s rock revolution to be captured on celluloid. Paris, France in 1968 was a city and country in upheaval. In May 1968 the French Revolution was ignited. A revolution in all sense of the...
