
Columbia. Warner Brothers. RCA. We all know the names of the great major labels of the 1970's. But there were plenty of "smaller" labels turning out great music, too. One of them, ABC Records (which was later sold to MCA, which was later sold to Universal) produced much of their best stuff at 8255 Beverly Boulevard, address for ABC Recording Studios. Records as opposite in style as Steely Dan 's Katy Lied and Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods ' Billy, Don't Be A [...]
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Creed Bratton's larceny streak began back in 1967, you see, when homey was stealing hearts as lead guitarist for The Grass Roots . Don't believe this is for serious? You might also enjoy watching the kids freakbeat to Bratton's effortlessly crunchy grooves in the Doris Day classic With Six You Get Eggroll . I knew he was a key player in the Scrantones, but damn. [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, you're in luck. We've just run across an entertaining, potentially rather accurate, post over on Holy Taco that details The 8 Places You Probably Lost Your Virginity . It offers pictures (such as the illustration above) and a his / her side of the story for each probable location. Here's an excerpt from place #5, the Backseat of a Car: HOW IT WENT DOWN FROM HER PERSPECTIVE - You held back the urge to vomit due to his entire weight pushing [...]
Wait A Million Years - The Grass Roots Hard Times - Boz Scaggs Can't Get Right - Charlie Rich Stranded In The Jungle - New York Dolls She's Fetching - Big Dipper Slip Inside This House - 13th Floor Elevators [...]

It got a little blurry last night at the Elliott Brood concert.....or Broodster as we call him in our camp (not really). I was sweatin to the oldies too...whatsup with this +25 weather in October? Anyway the Broodster played a good set, I had never seen him live before....and I wasn`t expecting such a loud sound out of 3 guys...1 with a banjo, the other playing acoustic guitar and bass (with his feet) and then a drummer Steve Pitkin [...]
For the past five or six years, I have been torturing myself trying to unravel the mystery of an unknown '60s rock song. This has surely happened to you. You hear a song on the radio, love it, and the DJ fails to identify the artist or song title. As a naturally curious, obsessive-compulsive prone Scorpio, my mystery song haunted me. I was unable to recall anything about the song that would enable me to Google it and determine its identity. The only lyric I could recall from my beloved song was I love you , which, in pop [...]