Posts From Jeff Tamarkin
The Jaggerz’ ‘The Rapper’: You Know What He’s After
“The song was something that I wrote watching people in nightclubs. You’d see these dudes go over and start rapping to chicks,” said the band’s Donnie Iris.
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John Sebastian Interview: Recapturing the Lovin’ Spoonful ‘Magic’
After refusing to re-record his old hits with the Lovin’ Spoonful for decades, John Sebastian did just that with guitarist Arlen Roth. He tells us why.
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Mike Bloomfield & the Electric Flag: Long Time Comin’
He was an American guitar hero before there was such a thing. In 1967 he put together a new but short-lived band that combined blues, soul and rock.
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The Ides of March and the Story of ‘Vehicle’
They took their band name from a Shakespeare classic, their biggest hit from a real-life incident, and they drove their way up the charts in the year 1970.
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Beatles Documentary, ‘Eight Days a Week’: Review
The 2016 film is “a nonstop rush of adrenaline, a comfort-food feast of melodic guitars and impeccable harmonies, unbridled creativity and boundless artistic determination, cheeky wit and newness and wonder and youth. And screams—lots of screams.”
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13 Books That All Hippies Owned
In order to be a bona fide hippie, it was imperative to familiarize oneself with certain books. We’ve chosen a baker’s dozen
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‘One Toke Over the Line’ on ‘Lawrence Welk’—Huh?
In what has to be one of the most surreal moments on TV, the song was interpreted for viewers of a show that had no idea what a toke was.
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That ‘Don’t Touch My Records!’ Scene in ‘Diner’
The film is a portrait of a time in America when all seemed innocent and carefree but was not: bubbling just underneath, trouble and tension.
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When Zappa Was ‘Only In It for the Money’
The third album from the genius and his motley band lampooned society and the hippies escaping it. We look back at a ’60s masterpiece
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Tom Rush Has No Regrets—And a Great New Album
Not only a renowned singer-songwriter in his own right, Tom Rush helped popularize peers like Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Jackson Browne.
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