The day after Nicky died (September 6, 1994), Ian McLagan and his wife Kim were shopping in Austin and stopped to have a drink in Nicky’s honor. They chose a weirdly appropriate bar, with church pews as benches and coffins for tables, and ordered a round of beers. They were amazed when, without them lifting […]
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I should be done with the sixth entry of my Nicky Hopkins series in the next week or so. That post will cover the events of 1968, the same year this syrupy pop gem came out. The Iveys were basically Badfinger before Badfinger and “Maybe Tomorrow” was their first release on Apple Records, the label’s […]
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On March 26, I, Lance Davis, joined Sarah Espinoza in matrimony. It was a lovely, understated ceremony at the Urban Light installation in front of LACMA (LA County Museum of Art). Urban Light was one of the first places Sarah and I went to on a date because it features 200 street lamps from […]
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This one goes out to Raul Vela IV, drummer for Gleeson, inventor of the enchilaco*, and mustachioed hero of the Grand Champeen song, “Raul Vela” [Amazon]. Raul requested that I write about The Mice, obscure Cleveland rockers who were the missing link between early Beatles, early Who, and The Jam on one side and […]
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Phil Everly, the youngest Everly Brother, passed away on Friday, January 3, due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. COPD what happens when you slowly suffocate to death after a lifetime of smoking. It’s a cruel way for anyone to die, but particularly so here since it literally silenced one of the most heartfelt, deeply […]
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