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Deep Purple- in the early 1970s

Sometimes, it takes hearing a song being played live to make one realize just how great the song really is. This experience happened to me in March, 1985, when I saw Deep Purple at the Philadelphia Spectrum...

It was this song, “Pigs, Three Different Ones,” where upon listening to it in the car, my first wife forbade me from playing Pink Floyd’s “Animals” album in the car while she was in it. She called the song, ‘music to slice ...

Bob Dylan

The second Bob Dylan song from this series is “Joey” from his 1975 album, “Desire.” Clocking in at just over eleven minutes, the song tells the story of mobster Joey Gallo, who was gunned down in 1972. However, Dylan treats Joey wi...

I thought it best to begin my series of songs over ten minutes long with the first qualifying song I heard, which is also from the first live album I ever received, Bob Dylan’s “Hard Rain.” As the title suggests, the song in question is “Idi...

Unless I get a few more contributions, this is the third and final part of my tribute to female shredders, which came from you, my lovely readers. The first three contributions come from Stone who writes the blog, “Metal Odyssey.” The last two are from Lana Taramae who’s blog is called, “Me, Myself and Time.” I highly recommend both.