Posts From Mark Brown
Tom Petty, in 1996 Interview, Runs Down a Dream: ‘I Want To Play the Fillmore’
“I never sought to be a personality or a celebrity. I just want to be a musician.”–Tom Petty clarifies his life goals in a long-ago chat
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Eagles’ ‘The Long Run’: The Making of a Classic
“’The Long Run’ was a pretty painful birth because we were like, ‘How the f*** are we going to top “Hotel California”‘?”–Joe Walsh
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Joe Walsh—’But Seriously, Folks’: Behind the Scenes
“Coming off of ‘Hotel California,’ this was just big fun. This was dessert. It wasn’t drudgery, it wasn’t work, it wasn’t doing things over and over again.”
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‘Radical Radio’: A New Website Recalls the Heady Era of Freeform Programming
A new website, packed with content, recalls the days when a disc jockey could play anything he or she wanted.
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Prince Insiders Talk About His 1987 Masterpiece, ‘Sign O’ the Times’: Exclusive
“A lot of musicians end up doing the same song over and over. This sounds like nothing he’d ever done before,” his archivist says. “It is staggering”
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Eagles Live in Denver 2018: Different, But the Same
After a lot of healing, the band unreeled hit after hit in their 23-song set. All anyone was thinking about was singing along
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Rocker Michael Stanley Recorded a Final Album: The Inside Story
Prior to his death in March, the Cleveland legend cut a batch of new tracks with longtime producer Bill Szymczyk, who says “I’m in classic rock heaven”
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How Nils Lofgren ‘Weathered’ the Pandemic: Interview
“I like the idea of a bunch of old guys getting out and knocking it out of the park,” says the veteran singer/guitarist–and he does so on his recent album
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Neil Young’s 1975 ‘Homegrown’ LP is Finally Released: Review
Overall, ‘Homegrown’ lives up to its legendary status; it’s a classic Neil Young album, because in 1975 he was classic Neil Young.
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Michael Szymczyk Recruits Walsh (x2), Vitale and Passarelli
The musician son of legendary producer Bill Szymczyk is joined on his new LP by Joe Walsh and former members of Barnstorm on a cover of a song from their ’72 debut
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