The Most Wonderful Time of the Year... for Guitarists.

Trade show people wanting to showcase their guitar goods have the NAMM conference for gear and mingling each winter... the rest of us, like yours truly, eagerly await Guitar Player magazine in our mailboxes each month. A late bloomer on the 6 string, I began reading it a couple of years before I began to play in the  late 1970s. And its still my periodical of choice. Unlike many institutions that seem to worsen with age, Guitar Player keeps getting better.

The Electric Croude - Sun, 03/25/2012

  • The Cars /
  • Monte Montgomery /
  • Rodrigo y Gabriela /
  • Jodi Shaw /
  • Joe Maphis /
  • Tarnation /
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The Electric Croude - Sun, 03/18/2012

  • Radiohead /
  • The Who /
  • Porcupine Tree /
  • Annbjorg Lien /
  • Loreena McKennitt /
  • Various /
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The Electric Croude - Fri, 03/09/2012

  • Jeff Beck /
  • Larry Coryell /
  • Various /
  • Cream /
  • Chris Lucas / Laura Ann Singh /
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The Electric Croude - Sun, 03/04/2012

  • Napolean XIV /
  • MIchael Jonathan /
  • Donna Adler /
  • Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer /
  • Dengue Fever /
  • Adam Cohen /
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March Madness from Castle Croude

Adam Cohen

I probably don’t have to say it--but no basketball talk here. This week’s show begins with Napolean XVI... long, long ago and far, far away--before G. Lucas or mindless electioneering--and--ends in otherworldly fashion with a dance from the fourth rock from the Sun.

In Space No One Can Hear You Scream

How is pop culture from the 70’s Alien Ated?  Don’t write....its not a typo in Krell.

But you can comment on the show--and I would love to hear your thoughts. On one level, Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd has become the Pyramid mystery of  the 20th Century... at least musically. There’s a lot of psycho-babble on Wikipedia about whether or not the music was deliberately manipulated to co-incide with the film, The Wizard of Oz. Its easy to pull up alleged definitions to justify or not justify your case. In fact, its easier to do that than explain away the uncanny co-incidences that do appear if you synchronize the beginning fo the album with the third roar of the MGM Lion in Wizard

45 Years: A Glimmer of Epic

The biggest curse of commercial radio isn't the commercials.  Its the enervating mediocrity of programming done by focus groups in other cities and slammed in your face day after day.  Month by month.  Year after year.

Levon’s People: Special Encore Broadcast

Before The Frost...Until The Freeze

It sounds too pompous and way too much of a cliche to state one particular Americana ensemble has taken up where The Band left off--on the other hand--if anyone deserve's to be in that category, The Black Crowes certainly do.  Critics in the past loved to slap  miselading labels on them. 

The Electric Croude - Sun, 01/29/2012

  • Gentle Giant / Talybont
  • The Black Crowes / What is Home
  • Mountain / Nantucket Sleighride
  • Kamelot / The Black Halo
  • Girlfriend / Little Things
  • Honor Finnegan / Pictures of Snow
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