Tag: Rock and Roll

Transforming Loss into Artistic Expression

In this video recording, actor and musician Noah Reid describes the way that a Neil Young song allowed him to understand and portray the way that loss shaped…

The Concert

After 40 years of attending rock concerts I still get excited about them. There’s nothing like counting the days until the band is in town or when I…

Riots and the Rolling Stones: Musical Youth Culture in 1970s Greece

Parthenon describes his experience growing up as a musically-minded American expatriate in Greece in the 1960s and early 1970s. After a Greek military coup, opportunities to see live…

How Big Star Saved Pop Rock

Peter Holsapple describes his dismay as a Beatles fan growing up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina when subsequent pop rock, in his opinion, failed to live up to their…

Becoming a One-Man Band

Heitzenrater describes his transition from an early focus on classical music to the revelation that multi-track recording could enable him to reach new creative heights in musical composition…

“Nowhere Man” in Lincoln, Nebraska

Sweet describes stumbling upon a 45 record that altered his perspective on The Beatles. More profoundly, it changed how he understood his place in the world. Transcript My…

Music Connects Us

Music has always been a powerful and connective force, especially when we least expect it. My father dedicated his life to classical music. Classical was the only form…

Mystic Musicality

A single book forever changed the way young Bill Carbone thought not only about drumming, but the world. Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart’s Drumming at the Edge of…

The Musical Awakening of Steven Van Zandt

On February 9, 1964, The Beatles’ group appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show electrified the nation. Four months later, a young Steven Van Zandt had an “epiphany” while…

Butthole Surfers Blew My Mind

Butthole Surfers was the band. Locust Abortion Technician was the album. Bob Schneider’s life would never be the same. – Bob Schneider (Musician, Songwriter, and Artist, Austin, Texas)