Posts From Harvey Kubernik
When Johnny Cash Played for 700 San Francisco Hippies
The newly released recording is “probably the closest to what it actually sounded like to be in the audience for a Johnny Cash show in 1968.”
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Tom Petty, 1980: Damn the Lawsuits—A Vintage Interview
“I’m not interested in being a household word. I’m interested in making good records. I just really want to write good songs.”–Petty
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Art Laboe, L.A. DJ Who Coined the Term ‘Oldies But Goodies,’ Dead at 97: A Tribute
No one in the history of L.A. radio did more to promote the music throughout Southern California—and indeed, the world—than Art Laboe.
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New Johnny Cash Documentary Due In December
“I think of all the documentaries made about my dad, he’d be most excited about this one,” said Cash’s son, John Carter Cash.
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Al Kooper on Recording “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” With the Stones
“Mick wore a gorilla coat and Keith a hat with a long feather. Everyone sat around and they passed out acoustic guitars.”–Kooper
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Carlos Santana @75: Crystalizing All That You Can Imagine
“The only thing the Santana band never wanted to do was succumb to phony. I’m not dependent or addicted to mass adulation.”–Carlos Santana
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The Rolling Stones’ ‘Out of Time’: The Backstory
It started out as a throwaway track stuck on a contractual-obligation album, became a hit cover for someone else, and now the Stones are playing it live.
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A Chat with David Leaf, Author of a Classic Brian Wilson Bio, Now Updated
The author’s update of a book first published nearly 45 years ago includes many new revelations, as well as new photos and an intro by Paul McCartney.
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‘Ziggy Stardust’: An Interview with Engineer Ken Scott
“With ‘Ziggy,’ some of the sounds I got I have no idea how I got them. They blew me away. It was, “’Wow. How the hell did I do that?’”–Ken Scott
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Bob Marley and the Wailers: Behind Their 1973 Capitol Records Session
The 1973 recording represented a unique moment in the Jamaican band’s history: one of the last times Marley and Peter Tosh played together.
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