Feature: The Rockologist
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The Rockologist Buys Himself An MP3MP5 Player For Christmas— Any port in a storm, right?
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The Rockologist Makes An Urgent Plea To Steven Wilson— Please don't make me steal your new solo album.
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The Rockologist: Got My Cheap Trick Records Out!— For a brief time, Cheap Trick were not only one of the biggest bands in the world, they were also arguably the best.
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The Rockologist: Why Its Okay To Like AC/DC Again— AC/DC. It's whats for dinner.
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The Rockologist: Reconnecting With My Inner Creedence— This Tuesday Fantasy Records is reissuing the first six of Creedence's original albums in new remastered editions with bonus unreleased tracks.
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The Rockologist: The Invincible And The Inevitable— A Thriller And A Killer.
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The Rockologist: Giving Bootlegs Some Love — As a music fan, you've gotta do what ya' gotta do.
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The Rockologist: Remembering Early U2 On Those Deluxe Reissues (Boy, October, and War) — Rediscovering when U2 was, above all else, a great rock band.
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The Rockologist: The Beach, The Sea, and The Who— Check your local listings for VH1's Rock Honors: The Who. But if you love rock and roll, don't miss it.
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The Rockologist Puts Together A 4th Of July 2008 Mixtape— In porn terms, Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" is what you would call the "money shot" of a July 4th mixtape.
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The Rockologist: How Exclusivity Deals Are Nailing The Coffin Shut On Music Retail— Shame on you AC/DC. Shame on you.
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The Rockologist: Birdland And My Ongoing Schoolboy Crush On Patti Smith— Some schoolboy crushes simply refuse to die.
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The Rockologist Discovers A Potentially Great New Record Label— Stay tuned, but I like what I hear so far from Beta-lactam Ring Records.
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The Rockologist: The Politics Of DancingRocking— Revolution rock still lives. You just gotta' look a bit harder to find it.
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The Rockologist: Some Thoughts On Danny Federici 24 Hours Later— Who knows the answers to why things like these happen?
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The Rockologist: Baptism By Bruce In The Northwest— It's like trying to tell a stranger about rock and roll.
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The Rockologist: Getting "The Nail" From Glenn Danzig (And Other Random Memories) At Def American— I'm still trying to figure out the connection between making records and sticking things through your skin. But we were all over it.
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The Rockologist: Punk Rock, New Wave, and the Jesus Of Cool— The late seventies were a very strange time for rock music.
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The Rockologist On The Art Of The Interview— Interviewing rock stars is both easy and fun... at least when they decide to cooperate.
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The Rockologist Used To Be A "Rapologist" They Called The Shockmaster— Been there. Done that.
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The Rockologist Learns To Play Guitar— I want to be Jimi Hendrix right freaking now, dammit!
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The Rockologist: Digging Through "The Pile"— I may just have to start digging through "the pile" a bit more often.
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The Rockologist Picks His Top Ten Albums of 2007
— Okay, so maybe this is a little bit premature (well by like a week anyway).
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The Rockologist: Welcome To The Hotel...Edgewater— When Seattle's final rock history is written, the Edgewater's place is every bit as assured as those of Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix.
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The Rockologist: Ladies And Gentlemen... Aruigius G?— There's no harm in a bunch of aging old farts getting together to indulge some rock star fantasies on the weekends, right?
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The Rockologist: Why I Love Porcupine Tree
— So gee, ya think I like these guys or what?
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The Rockologist: An Open Letter To Neil Young— You know I love you, Neil, but what's up with those damned ticket prices?
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The Rockologist: Revisiting The Young Rascals (Or Was That The Rascals?)— In which your Rockologist re-embraces his Young Rascals. No, not those Young Rascals. I meant the band, silly.
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The Rockologist: On Becoming A Rock Critic— You know that wanna be rock journalist kid modeled after Cameron Crowe in Almost Famous? That was me.
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The Rockologist: Remembering The Night I Knew I Had "Made It" In The Music Biz — The Mick Jagger Party— I was like a kid set loose in the world's biggest candy store.
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The Rockologist: These Are a Few of My Favorite Guitar Solos (And Guitar Players) Of All Time— If you grew up loving rock and roll as I did, then you grew up loving guitar solos.
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The Rockologist: All Strawbed Out In The Seventies - And Again Today— The classic lineup of this great, largely forgotten English progressive folk-rock band is heading out on tour this summer.
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The Rockologist Flashes Back To His Favorite Albums Of The Seventies— The Rockologist gets all old school and revisits his days as an aspiring, somewhat rough around the edges rock journalist.
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The Rockologist: Remembering Two Of Al Stewart's Best Albums, And The Time He Stole My Date— I still love Al Stewart's music all these years later. But if we ever meet again, remind me he's owed one punch in the nose.
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The Rockologist: My Journey Into Jazz— Jazz music used to really piss me off. Until I discovered the meaning of "real jazz" was all about painting a picture.
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The Rockologist: Before There Was Fleetwood Mac, There Was, Well, Fleetwood Mac— Before Buckingham and Nicks, there was Peter Green. And Danny Kirwan. And Bob Welch. And before Rumours, they made some great records.
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The Rockologist: Run-DMC - Live At Montreux 2001— It may surprise some people who read this space fairly regularly to learn that "The Rockologist" is actually a pretty big rap music fan.
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The Rockologist: Feeling Kinda Proggy With The Also-Rans Of Seventies Prog-Rock— Somewhere in the seventies in between Uriah Heep and punk rock, I fell in love with the mellotron.
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The Rockologist: Embracing ABBA And Other Guilty Pleasures— C'mon, Go ahead and admit it. You love ABBA.
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The Rockologist: The Chameleons Are The Greatest Band You've Never Heard Of— Somewhere in a parallel universe, The Chameleons would have been one of the biggest bands in the world.
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The Rockologist: Getting Deep With Uriah Heep— With their legacy of critical disrespect, deceased band members, and legendary excess both on and offstage, Uriah Heep were the real life Spinal Tap.
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The Rockologist: Jim Dandy And Black Oak Arkansas— Awwwwl Right. You feelin' good cause you got a lot of motor under your wheels. And you say "Mama I Got a Hot Rod."
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