March 24, 2011

Check out the Top 10 Rock Genre CD's/LP's/Downloads For This Week (3-24-2011)

THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
KISS...Rock And Roll Over (1976)
(CD, vinyl, Allmusic review)
This album reached number 11 on the U.S. Billboard album charts. This is another great album that should have made it higher in the charts. For me this record is better now than when I was a kid. I can't explain it, really, but perhaps it's because now I've actually sat down and listened to it as an adult rather than as a teenager who just wanted to play my tennis racket like a guitar with bands like Kiss. Folks, this album just flat our rocks with no studio gimmicks, not much overlays and with Eddie Kramer as the producer. "Baby Driver" could be the best song Peter Criss ever did both as a member of Kiss and as a solo artist. Other highlights "Makin' Love" and "Mr. Speed". I give it a 5 out of 5 stars, so highly recommended.


ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR MARCH 24
Nick Lowe is 62; Dougie Thomson of Supertramp is 60; Benj Gershman of O.A.R. is 31;

ON THIS DATE
1958 Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tennessee
1973 A fan jumps on stage and bites Lou Reed on the butt in Buffalo, New York
1991 The Black Crowes are kicked off as the opening act for ZZ Top because they criticized the tour sponsor Miller Beer
2001 Kari Hagar, wife of Sammy Hagar, delivers their second child Samantha Pastel Hagar in California. Also that day John Connolly of Sevendust marries Lori Kirkley
2006 A movie based on the 1969 death of Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones premieres. The movie is called "Stoned"
2007 The Scorpions perform in Brussels, Belgium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome
2008 Jimi Hendrix's estate, Experience Hendrix, wins a summary judgment in the U.K. against The Times of London who had inserted a CD with live Hendrix material into a September 2006 issue and the judge ruled the paper had not gained the right to do so
2008 The Smashing Pumpkins file a lawsuit in Los Angeles against their label Virgin Records for breach of contract for letting Amazon.com and PepsiCo to use their music in ads

ROCKLINE with Bob Coburn
Monday, March 28 SULLY ERNA of GODSMACK 11:30 PM Eastern/8:30 Pacific Listen here
Wednesday, March 30 WHITESNAKE 11:30 PM Eastern/8:30 Pacific Listen here
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