Earlier this week, Bruce Springsteen joined Tangiers Blues Band to celebrate the reopening of Asbury Lanes in Asbury Park, NJ. What an incredible gig it was!! The rebirth of the bowling alley/music venue is thanks to the renovations by Jay Sugarman of i-Star, which has also launched the adjacent Asbury Hotel. After Tangiers Blues Band and Bruce’s […]
DJ Fontana, Elvis’ original drummer, passed away on Wednesday. DJ was integral to Elvis’ magical sound in 1956. Alfred Wertheimer took the greatest photographs ever of Elvis Presley in 1956. Here is a great one of DJ playing drums at the earth shaking recording session on July 2, 1956 at RCA Studios in New York, where […]
Bruce Springsteen and David Sancious, Central Park, 1973. © The Estate of David Gahr. Backstreets magazine just published a terrific story and interview on the making of Bruce Springsteen: From Asbury Park, to Born to Run, to Born in the USA (Rizzoli). It is an account of how Bruce Springsteen and photographer David Gahr came together and […]
Tom Petty, Bonnaroo, 2009. Photograph by Danny Clinch. Just a couple of weeks ago I attended the opening of The Soundry in Columbia, Maryland, the newest fine music venue in the Washington area. It was a remarkable evening. Tom Meyer, President of the Clyde’s group, commissioned Newmyer Flyer Productions to present a concert to open The […]
I was at the free Rolling Stones concert in Havana in March, 2016. It was a blast! Genesis Publications has just published a limited edition, deluxe autographed book of the Stones set lists that Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood illustrates. I love his painted set list from the Cuba concert I attended, and here it is. We […]