by talkfromtherockroom | Apr 1, 2020 | Now Showing, Reviews
Flickering on the flat screen in the ‘rock room’ today is a wonderful audio visual document featuring John Martyn playing on the BBC series Rock Goes to College. Played and broadcast from Reading University on October 20, 1978, the performance features a 40...
by talkfromtherockroom | Feb 10, 2018 | Live Reviews, Reviews
The Spring of 1978 is a time in Grateful Dead history that presents a multitude of unique and exciting musical moments. When examined as a whole, its easy to discern that the tour rides the rails precariously, always close to spiraling out of control. But with...
by talkfromtherockroom | Feb 3, 2018 | Reviews
Following the heinous assassination attempt on Bob Marley’s life in December of 1976, he flew to London to escape the imminent threat hanging over him in Jamaica. He’d spend more than a year in Britain, developing and recording songs that would eventually make...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jan 29, 2017 | Reviews, Take One
For today’s edition of Take One, the ‘rock room’ is spinning Bruce Springsteen’s 1978 single, ‘Prove it all night’.‘Prove it all night’ b/w ‘Factory’ was the first single released from Springsteen’s classic and famed 1978 LP...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jan 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Hailing from the most current live release series featured by the Estate of Jerry Garcia and grooving in the ‘rock room’, Garcia Live Volume Four, reveals itself from Garcia’s plentiful and bulging tape vault. The recording comes from March 22, 1978 at Veterans...
