Best Representative Works
There’s been a lot of ground covered on male/female greats in the not too distant past here on MusicTAP. It has certainly brought out plenty of excellent observations and created…
TAPSheet: Release Notes – 06/08/2012
AAO Music plans the release of Mack The Knife by Bobby Darin, scheduling for July 24. Just a week later, AAO Music will bring out Memories by Connie Francis on…
Review: Analog Man – Joe Walsh
I was immensely surprised to hear that Joe Walsh, he of James Gang, Barnstorm, and Eagles fame, would be releasing a new solo effort some 20 years after his last,…
Review: The Wall (Experience Edition) – Pink Floyd
By the time of The Wall, the Roger Waters machine was in full motion. Fueled by the previous successes of The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here,…
Trying To Roll Away The Stone…
Having brought up a nice conversation about our state of music nowadays vs the stars that were abundant in the past, I thought that we could go in several directions…
TAPSheet: Release Notes – 06/01/2012 – US Report
Island Records plan the release of In Dub, Volume One featuring Bob Marley & The Wailers, planned for CD release on July 17. Eagle Rock will issue Live at Montreux…
Where Are All Of Our Heroes?
We have talked at considerable length about our love and respect for both male and female performers/singers/songwriters. For many years these talents have filled us with songs, thrilling performances, and…
Apologies
I just wanted to pop in here and apologize for my lack of posts, which all now have to be produced on a netbook from here until Jan/Feb of 2013.…
Male Greats
Like the great female artists of the long and great Rock era, that same period also had its share of male artists. And what a cast they were. Elvis Presley,…
Review: Thick As A Brick 2 (TAAB2) – Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson
Opening with the same fade-up technique that first greeted listeners forty years ago, Thick As A Brick 2 quickly establishes itself as something new. After the oddly familiar opening, it…
Opinion Poll: Klaus Nomi
I have a kind of Dick Clarkian good idea here. I want to explore it and get opinions about music that might be obscure, from different eras, or, even from…
In Memorium: Our Hearts
Over the last week, we have lost a few luminaries of Rock. And although I have become loathe to visit these things unless I seem forced to it, I feel…