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Happy 45th: Black Sabbath, Master of Reality (Article)
Thursday, July 21, 2016
45 years ago today, Black Sabbath released their third studio album, setting into motion a genre of music described variously as doom metal, sludge metal, and stoner rock, but try to move past that and just enjoy Master of Reality for what it is: a true heavy metal classic. Recorded in the early months of 1971, Master of Reality was produced by Rodger Bain, completing his trifecta of albums for the band, but it would prove to be the last time he worked with them. Still, what a way to go out, right? Songs like “After Forever,” “Children of the Grave,” and “Into the Void” may be dark, but they
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Dr. Rhino's Picks #166 (Article)
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Let’s get mellow with Bread & America everybody! ABOUT DR. RHINO A young Dr. Rhino first encountered the magic of song whilst being born in the front seat of a Lincoln Continental. As the attending physician recalls, the tune was “Touch Me In The Morning” by Diana Ross. It was a mind-blower. Over the years, Dr. Rhino listened to many, many more songs. And, after several summers of diggin’ music, making the scene & a stint in Attica, the good doctor joined Rhino Records. A remarkable career of taste & empathy ensued. Dr. Rhino now spends his time hitting bull’s-eyes, making it rain and
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This Day in 1968: Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” makes its chart debut (Article)
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
48 years ago today, Iron Butterfly’s single edit of “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” made its first appearance on the Billboard Pop Singles chart...or if you want to get technical, it appeared just under it. In the late 1960s, some of the bands that had started out in the so-called psychedelic era had been to transition to a harder sound, one which ultimately became described as heavy metal. If you were around at the time, though, you wouldn’t have called it that, because the term didn’t really take off for another few years. But that’s beside the point: what matters is that one of the bands that was in
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Rhino Factoids: Drifters Redux (Article)
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
58 years ago today, the members of The Drifters discovered that they weren’t nearly as irreplaceable as they might’ve thought they were. George Treadwell started his music career as a jazz trumpeter, playing in the bands of such noted musicians as Ace Harris, Cootie Williams, and J.C. Heard, and in addition to accompanying Sarah Vaughn when she sang for Heard’s band, he also served as her husband from 1946 to 1958. Whether by coincidence or not, 1958 is also the year that Treadwell – having set his trumpet aside in favor of serving as the manager to The Drifters – pulled a move on the famed
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Happy Anniversary: The Doors, The Soft Parade (Article)
Monday, July 18, 2016
47 years ago today, The Doors released their fourth album, an effort which found the foursome stepping a bit outside the box from their sounds of their previous LPs and embracing brass and string arrangements. “It was to be a sonic extravaganza,” Ray Manzarek wrote in his autobiography, Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors, “with horns and strings augmenting our basic guitar, keyboards, and drums sound. We were going to bring in jazz cats, country-and-western pickers, and classical pickers.” Like the majority of the band’s catalog, The Soft Parade was produced by Paul A. Rothchild, but
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Happy 20th: Ween, 12 Golden Country Greats (Article)
Monday, July 18, 2016
20 years ago this month – over the weekend, in fact – Ween released their third studio album on Elektra Records, an endeavor which found Dean and Gene Ween going country. It would be fair to say that Ween arrived on Elektra Records with a reputation for delivering music both eccentric and entertaining, but their first major-label album, Pure Guava, kind of set the tone for the masses, in that it left them with absolutely no idea what to make of the band, thanks to the album’s first single, “ Push Th’ Little Daisies.” Chocolate and Cheese, their follow-up effort for the label, mostly maintained
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Now Available: Jeff Beck (Article)
Friday, July 15, 2016
He’s on a short list of the greatest rock legends of all time, which would be accomplishment enough, but the fact that he’s still of a mind to keep making new music makes him even greater. We’re talking about Jeff Beck, of course, and even as you’re reading these words, LOUD HAILER, his first new studio album in six years, is sitting in a record store and waiting for you to purchase it. (If you aren’t familiar with the phrase that gives the album its title, it’s just another term for a megaphone, which – you guessed it – is why there’s a megaphone on its cover.) LOUD HAILER features 11 tracks
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Rhino Factoids: Eddie Van Halen and the Jacksons (Article)
Thursday, July 14, 2016
32 years ago today, Eddie Van Halen joined Michael Jackson onstage in Dallas, Texas to play his guitar solo on “Beat It,” which was – as you might imagine – the sort of musical moment that everyone in attendance has been telling their friends and family about for years. You may or may not remember the Victory tour, a grand affair which found The Jacksons – yes, including Michael – hitting the road and playing some shows together. Given how high Michael’s star was at the time, it’s rather amazing that it happened at all (the amount of family guilt must have been staggering), but for longtime
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Happy 30th: Bananarama, True Confessions (Article)
Thursday, July 14, 2016
30 years ago today, Bananarama released their third full-length album, an effort which provided them with something in the US that they never managed to secure in their native UK: a #1 hit. Produced variously by Tony Swain, Steve Jolley, and – for the first time in their career – the trio of Stock Aitken Waterman, True Confessions was not a commercial success in the UK, and if one had to theorize a reason as to why that was the case, then consider the possibility that the group changed their formula to one that brought them commercial success in the US. We’ve always had our musical differences
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Dr. Rhino's Picks #165 (Article)
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Jimmy Castor and Eddie Harris this week...hip, funny, funky, ebullient, debonair...at a certain point, words will fail. ABOUT DR. RHINO A young Dr. Rhino first encountered the magic of song whilst being born in the front seat of a Lincoln Continental. As the attending physician recalls, the tune was “Touch Me In The Morning” by Diana Ross. It was a mind-blower. Over the years, Dr. Rhino listened to many, many more songs. And, after several summers of diggin’ music, making the scene & a stint in Attica, the good doctor joined Rhino Records. A remarkable career of taste & empathy ensued. Dr
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