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This free contest involving interrelated Football and Rock Music Trivia is open to everyone. The entry with the most correct answers for the first 10 questions wins. The questions are for the most part tricky. In the event of a tie, the First Place Winner will be decided by the tie breaker question, [...]

I’m no musicologist but I was shocked when I just saw what I assume to be a new Pepsi Cola Commercial at the 2 minute warning during the Arizona Cardinals Atlanta Falcons Playoff Football game on NBC that starts with the wording “Yo” “Howdy” “Aloha” shown and the lyrics “And the world is made of energy and the world is electricity” and so on, which sounds with the melody practically identical to the part on “Put A Little Love in Your Heart” by Jackie DeShannon that goes “and the World will be a better place, and the World will be a Better Place, For You and Me”. Includes Jackie DeShannon video of “Put a Little Love”.

Just thought I’d use this blog to give Snowy White, an “auxiliary guitarist” for Pink Floyd live and on record, co- lead guitarist with Thin Lizzy from 1979-81, and leader of his own band, as recognition for being one of the best lead guitarists in the world and as an introduction to any guitar rock [...]

I would just like to thank all the people who’ve read my blog in the past year as well as anyone who has bought Discount items from my Online Gift shop or any of my other E-Commerce Stores which I customarily list after each Blog Post. I hope 2009 is a great year for you and your loved ones and I hope you’ll continue to read this blog and tell your friends about it. Here are a few of our Best Blog posts.

Here’s a rare Beatles Trivia Quiz I thought up- Rare Because it isn’t as easy as most Beatles Trivia Quizzes. It’s more geared to devoted fans of the Beatles than the casual fan and covers Beatles recording sessions, albums and Beatles Wives as well as the Beatles themselves. Answers follow question 10. Good luck.

Here are 2 amazing live instrumental performances by 2 great English rock bands I thought I’d bring to attention.

List of Jimi Hendrix Recordings Made Before Jimi Hendrix Experience Formed

I’ve just the spent one of the best weekends of my life listening only to John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers CDS: John Mayall Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton [DELUXE EDITION] a 2 CD collection featuring most of Eric Clapton’s sixties recordiings with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers A Hard Road with Peter Green [...]

Chess Records of Chicago put out some of the best blues, R&B, and early rock and roll records of the Fifties and Sixties and is now the subject of not one but two different movies coming out: “Cadillac Records” starring Adrien Brody as Leonard Chess, Cedric the Entertainer as Willie Dixon, Mos Def as Chuck Berry, Columbus Short as Little Walter, Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Waters, and Beyoncé Knowles as Etta James and “Who Do You Love” with a lesser known cast (I would have listed the leads but no offense intended I never heard of any of them). I thought before the great music of Chess Records is trivialized and “bastardized” by companies trying to cash in on these movies, that I’d recommend the best “Best Of” original recording collections on CD of some of the great Chess Recording Artists, so anyone interested in hearing more will know where to look.

No one illustrates the importance of owning a band, business or product’s name more so than Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses. Musicians as well as businessmen and inventors can learn from him as no matter what you think, he is one smart dude.

I just saw the best documentary I’ve ever seen titled “Everest Rocks” on cable TV and this movie which features Rock Musicians Mike Peters from the Alarm, Stray Cats Slim Jim Phantom, Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze, Cy Curnin and Jamie West-Oram of The Fixx, singer Nick Harper, Mt. Everest summiteers, trekkers and cancer survivors, on a once in a lifetime journey to Mt. Everest to stage the highest concert on land to raise money for a local cancer hospital in Nepal surrounded by the beauty of the Himalayas.

I just saw and heard an amazing performance of Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’” by a singer/actress/model named Elena Satine on CBS’s Cold Case and to my utter disappointment it apparently is not available commercially.

“Shake It” by Johnny Dyer and Rick Holmstrom on Black Top Records is the best blues album I’ve heard in 20 years with the hottest sizzling blues guitar since Eric Clapton on the John Mayall Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton album.

One of my favorite Rock Groups of the 60s that never got its due is Los Bravos of Spain who had the classic hit Black is Black but unfortunately are considered a 1 Hit Wonder by most people in the United States but were so much more than that. I’ve included over 9 videos of their songs with this blog.

I love moron movies. Moron movies are movies with no real point, no social value that totally entertain you and are universally panned by the critics. “Maximum Overdrive” featuring an awesome soundtrack by AC/DC that sets the pace of the movie and written and directed by Stephen King is one of the great Moron Movies Ever which is the highest compliment I can give a movie!

Here are some tips and different options I’ve learned by trial and error over the years on how to improve your CD sound. Each of these tips can be done independent of each other or in tandem. I mainly listen to classic rock and blues CDs and my tastes are geared to this music.
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If you own the following 10 CD Box Sets and have no other CDs to listen to for the rest of your life, your music pleasure will still be ideal. These to me are the 10 Best Rock related Box sets of music ever. I’ve listed them in alphabetical order with a brief summary plus full track listing.

If you own the following 10 CD Box Sets and have no other CDs to listen to for the rest of your life, your music pleasure will still be ideal. These to me are the 10 Best Rock related Box sets of music ever. I’ve listed them in alphabetical order with a brief summary plus full track listing.

I thought I’d put together for any fan of Sixties Music Video links on one page of the 10 Best Sixties Liverpool Groups after the Beatles featuring the original founding group lineups performing mainly live in the 60’s on very good quality footage. In other words you are seeing the original founding lineup performing in the 60’s not some 2008 version of the band with 1 original member!

Before someone reads me the riot act, I am a fan of Led Zeppelin and this “Separated at Birth” Blog with pictures is not meant as an insult at all but something I think most Led Zeppelin fans may enjoy. I did not include anything on John Bonham as I considered that disrespectful. To me Led Zeppelin were one of my favorite hard rock acts and Jimmy Page is the best lead guitarist in the world.

In case any fans of the King, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash, didn’t see this online, I thought you would enjoy this. Please click here and enjoy and after you see it please enjoy this blog.
There’s a great article about Johnny Cash remembering Elvis on this Australian Website. Enjoy! Rock On Elvis and Johnny Cash
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One of the great lost albums of all-time is The Records last album, “Music on Both Sides” which is now available on CD with 9 bonus tracks of previously unreleased recordings and is one great package for all fans of power pop.

I just watched “The Rocker” because of Rainn Wilson of The Office, a movie with such a lame title that I thought it was going to be mediocore and for the most part I was right. However the music was fantastic by the “nonexistent” Heavy Metal group Vesuvius.

I haven’t been psyched waiting for a new CD like Paul Kossoff and Black Cat Bones “Paul’s Blues”, in ages. I didn’t even know that any recordings actually existed with Paul Kossoff and Black Cat Bones who Paul was a member of before he joined Free.

I’m sure most of you know that the Beach Boys recorded a song in 1968, “Never Learn to Love” written by Charles Manson. Here’s a video of their performance as well as Charles Manson performing his original version that was titled “Cease to Exist”