Robert Gordon with Link Wray: Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll [ purchase ] "Gonna rock 'n' roll all the way from Mars!" Here's Ray Scott, who wrote "Flyin' Saucers Rock 'N' Roll," quoted in Greil Marcus's book, Rockabilly: The Twang Heard 'Round the World : People ask me how I ever came up with the idea to write a song like "Flyin' Saucer Rock and Roll"...I saw one of those things. Near Indianapolis in '54, I saw something shaped like a big cigar...That's [...]
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Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Taylor Hill, Getty Images Singer-songwriter Marshall Crenshaw can remember what the vibe was like in New York when he lived there 30 years ago. "It really opened my mind up," Crenshaw, who is from the Detroit region, tells Spinner. "The music scene in New York at that time was super vibrant. One of the first things I realized was that you could have a band and [...]
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The horrible state of commercial radio never ceases to amaze me. I had a small change to my work situation so, now, instead of spending time in a car with my satellite radio, I'm working indoors. I don't yet have a portable adaptor for my satellite receiver, so lately I've been listening to a lot of government radio. Specifically, the local "active rock" station. Their playlist seems to consist mainly of a mix of old Pearl Jam, old Black Sabbath, old Motley Crue, and way too much Nickleback and bands [...]
Goodbye El Goodo By Robert Gordon Alex stuck his finger down his throat and gagged, showing me that's how much he hated Memphis. We laughed about it. He didn't like me much either (something I wrote perhaps, or his interpretation of my horoscope charts), but that didn't mean we couldn't laugh together, and it didn't mean he couldn't have fun in Memphis. He'd recently boarded a flight for a European tour, and the movie showing was The Firm , shot in Memphis—he gagged again. Memphis was a cloak [...]
I launched Fusion 45 almost two years ago because I wanted to spend more time with my record collection (and less time with my kids!) in the studio I'd spent a lot of time and money building. (OK, the part about my kids is not exactly true; but when the going gets tough, it's certainly an attractive refuge. My wife, the nurturer, understands.) What I've gotten is more time with my computer. Damn, another plan foiled. The very first Fusion 45 post was a mix of songs that happened this [...]
Howdy y'all. Welcome to Outloud. In this week's installment I am going to be gracing you with a performance by a band formed by Link Wray and Robert Gordon . Hopefully the name Link Wray is familiar to you already, if not then it is definitely time to do some homework. Among Link's many great achievements in rock and roll was inventing something that every rock band uses, no matter if they call themselves hardcore, emo, rockabilly, or punk rock - the power chord. [...]
In the mid‑seventies, when he was red‑hot, Waylon played Memphis, and his one‑time rhythm guitar player and road manager, Curtis Buck, a/k/a Jerry McGill, came to the show in drag. McGill, who had a Memphis rock and roll band in the fifties and recorded for Sun Records, was eluding prosecution for various federal crimes. He had developed a problem traveling with Waylon when they put the metal detectors in airports. But there had been times when McGill's guns—he normally carried three, counting the one in his girlfriend's purse—had come in handy, like the time the cop had McGill's boss under [...]
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