TweetIf you’ve seen the Maysles brothers’ concert documentary Gimme Shelter, you know the story of what happens in the clip below: Jefferson Airplane begins performing “The Other Side of This Life” during their set at the infamous 1969 Altamont Speedway Free Music Festival, held just east of San Francisco two years after the Summer of Love…
TweetWhen I heard earlier today that Allen Toussaint had died at 77 while on tour in Spain, a flood of great New Orleans funk rushed into my head. So I figured I’d do what many of my colleagues have done and make a playlist. But mine is longer than the Top Tens I’ve seen online.…
Tweet “Ah, baby, you’re so vicious…” Reading on Facebook today that Lou Reed had died, I had one of those visceral reactions. I literally felt it in my gut. It was as though someone had punched me. Hard. With a flower. Lou Reed was too tough to die. He was too gentle to die. He…