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Charlie Watts Rips the Joint With Boogie Woogie in New York
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was in the front row for the opening set. The great jazz drummer Roy Haynes was in the same chair for the second set, which bro... | More »July 3, 5:30 PM ET| David Fricke -
Bob Welch's Missing Music: The Fleetwood Mac Years
After ex-Fleetwood Mac singer-guitarist Bob Welch died on June 7th, by his own hand at his home in Nashville, his boss in the early Seventies, drummer and Mac co-found... | More »June 21, 11:20 AM ET| David Fricke -
Memories of Doc Watson
With the passing of Arthel "Doc" Watson, in Winston-Salem., North Carolina on May 29th at the age of 89, America has lost a master of acoustic folk and country guitar ... | More »May 30, 4:30 PM ET| David Fricke -
Oz Rock Legend Deniz Tek of Radio Birdman Burns on the Bowery
"As true now as it was in 1975," said guitarist-singer Deniz Tek of Australia's Radio Birdman, introducing the first encore during his May 18th show at New York&#... | More »May 23, 6:20 PM ET| David Fricke -
Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz Speak Out About Adam Yauch
"He had us fooled in the most beautiful way," Michael Diamond said of Adam Yauch, his friend and fellow Beastie Boy for more than 30 years, describing the latter... | More »May 23, 11:55 AM ET| David Fricke -
Lost and Found Sounds by Captain Beefheart, Can and a Mother of Invention
Don Van Vliet – the late singer-composer-provocateur known as Captain Beefheart – was recovering from the deepest nadir of his musical life, two mid-Sevent... | More »May 18, 5:55 PM ET| David Fricke -
A Stone Rolls In: Mick Taylor Plays the Blues in New York
Former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor ended his recent first set at the New York jazz club Iridium with the closest thing so far, in that band's 50th year, ... | More »May 14, 1:15 PM ET| David Fricke -
Post-Grateful Dead Band Furthur Opens Eight-Night Stand in NYC
The long strange trip continues. Furthur – the Grateful Dead-afterlife project led by the latter band's busiest touring survivors, bassist Phil Lesh and sin... | More »April 10, 4:50 PM ET| David Fricke -
Allman Brothers Finish March Run at the Beacon Minus Gregg but in High Gear
"It was a total celebration – everybody rose to the occasion and played their best," guitarist Warren Haynes said the day after the Allman Brothers Band ended th... | More »March 26, 4:05 PM ET| David Fricke -
Bruce Springsteen Brings It Home at SXSW
At the end of his SXSW keynote address on March 15th, Bruce Springsteen left the thousands of aspiring songwriters and performers congregated in Austin, Texa... | More »March 16, 10:25 AM ET| David Fricke -
Bruce Springsteen Makes Surprise Appearance at Austin Music Awards
Bruce Springsteen opened his SXSW blitz a night early, making a surprise appearance on lead guitar and occasional vocals during Alejandro Escovedo's closing set ... | More »March 15, 10:00 AM ET| David Fricke -
New Order Revisit Their Past in Australia
Before the third song of New Order's March 7th show at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia, the British band's singer-guitarist Bernard Sumner thanked ... | More »March 7, 4:20 PM ET| David Fricke -
Radiohead Shine in Miami to Kick Off First U.S. Tour in Four Years
Radiohead began the opening night of their first U.S. tour in four years – at Miami's American Airlines Arena on February 27th – with a perfect descri... | More »February 28, 12:05 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Alice Cooper, Bob Seger and Humble Pie Rock Your TV, 1970-71
There was a time, mostly in the Sixties, when like all politics, the best rock & roll television was local. Top 40 disc jockeys hosted low-budget dance parties mod... | More »February 23, 5:40 PM ET| David Fricke
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Rolling Stone senior writer David Fricke has more than 10,000 albums in his New York apartment. His first record review for the magazine was Frank Zappa's 'Sheik Yerbouti' (RS 290).
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