Horizons Touched: The Music Of ECM

ECM: three simple letters that convey much. Indeed, so strong is founder and main producer Manfred Eicher's dialectic of sound and image that unified, holistic reactions/representations are spontaneously triggered in connoisseurs' minds. As one, the label's characteristic aural and visual signatures mesh felicitously into what is now universally understood as "the ECM sound." Few labels have achieved such a singular aesthetic identity. Which raises the following questions: what is the ECM sound, if there is one, and what are the technical and philosophical tenets to which Eicher adheres? Two years before its 40th anniversary, and after more than a thousand recording sessions, the Munich-Graefelfing, Germany based label finally offers an inside look at itself. Read more...

WNEW | Where Rock Lives: Grand Funk Railroad

It's a little-known factoid that Grand Funk Railroad are the one's that smashed the Beatles' ticket sales record for Shea Stadium, one that still stands. Here's a clip of I'm Your Captain from that legendary concert.
Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the song (and it's many, many names): Ten minutes in duration, it is the band's longest studio recording. One of the group's best-known songs, it is composed as two distinct but closely related movements. Accordingly, its title has been rendered in various ways across many different Grand Funk albums, including I'm Your Captain, I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home, Closer to Home/I'm Your Captain, Closer to Home (I'm Your Captain), and Closer to Home.

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WNEW | Where Rock Lives: Video Classics: 'Jessica' - The Allman Brothers

It's rare for an instrumental piece to make the Firecracker 500, but this little number by The Allman Brothers Band is one of the exceptions ...

Jessica was first released on the Allman Brothers' 1973 album Brothers and Sisters. For those of us who have ever shared an office with true motorheads (the WNEW archivist currently does so), we also recognize it as the opening theme to the British auto enthusiast television series, Top Gear, though in that case, it is an updated cover version that is played.

Dickey Betts, guitarist of the band, wrote the song as a tribute to Django Reinhardt, the famous jazz guitarist who could only use two fingers while playing as the result of a childhood industry. Appropriately, the guitar part to Jessica can be played using only two fingers. The song itself was named for Betts' daughter, and it comes in at a Top 100 #57 on the 1991 Firecracker 500, falling to #237 for the 1996 list.t.

WNEW | Where Rock Lives: Video Classics: 'Jessica' - The Allman Brothers

WNEW | Where Rock Lives: WNEW Rock News: McCartney Stint in London?

Having just played London's O2 Arena last night, Sir Paul McCartney is hinting that he'd like to do a run of shows in the country's capital, much like the Christmas shows the Beatles once did.

McCartney told NME magazine that the idea of a "Union Jack" tour through England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland had occurred to him but his manager couldn't pull it together quickly enough.

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Aerosmith's Steven Tyler enters rehab

Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler has entered a rehabilitation facility to treat an addiction to painkillers his doctor says he has taken to deal with a decade of injuries. In a statement issued Tuesday, the singer said he hopes to quickly rejoin the band, an effort to quell recent reports that the group’s other members were considering hiring a replacement should he decide to take an extended break from his duties fronting the long-running hard-rock outfit.

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