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Ranking the Rolling Stones Sax Solos: BEST TO WORST

  By Robert Reid | April 4, 2018 - 4:21 pm | Music, Robert's Record Corner, Video
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No rock’n’roll band NOT named for an E Street has provided a more consistent, welcoming SAX SANCTUARY for the controversial woodwind than the Rolling Stones. At my count, they’ve left room for sax parts in 50 songs, 16 of which get bonafide solos. … Read on →

Tagged rock'n'roll, Rolling Stones, sax solos, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter

Let’s talk about the worthiness of Soviet rock music!

  By Robert Reid | October 10, 2017 - 7:30 pm | Music, Robert's Record Corner, Russia, Video
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Growing up a Cold War kid in Oklahoma, I naturally became fascinated with the (forbidden) Soviet Union. In high school, I thumbed through copies of Soviet Life in the school library for a report on life in the USSR. Later I read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky … Read on →

Tagged new wave, Soviet Union

Introducing… Robert’s Record Corner!!

  By Robert Reid | April 7, 2017 - 1:39 pm | Music, Robert's Record Corner, Video
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Ever wonder why some people favor old mono recordings to stereo ones? There is a very simple reason why, which I discuss on Episode #00001 of Robert’s Record Corner. (See all of them here.) This new show — which will run as long … Read on →

Tagged Charlie Watts, Records, Rolling Stones, video, Vinyl

Jazz is from New Orleans

  By Robert Reid | November 1, 2016 - 1:59 pm | Music, RO-Rock Music, RO-Travel, USA, Video
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I’ve just finished three barnstorming trips around the US to shoot videos for a National Geographic/Cengage textbook series on US history. This was fun. I dressed up as pilgrims, Civil War and Revolutionary War reenactors, Mark Twain, Paul Revere, George Washington, Rosie the … Read on →

Tagged New Orleans

Video: Prizren, Kosovo in 60 seconds

  By Robert Reid | April 11, 2016 - 2:25 pm | 76-Second Travel Show, Europe, Places, RO-Travel, Video
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I took a Balkan roadtrip last December, and one of the surprising highlights was the Kosovo town of Prizren. It was cold and foggy. I couldn’t even see the castle on the hill above town. And the town introduction was unusual. Crooked cobbled … Read on →

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Wait, there are women Rush Fans? Yes. [Video]

  By Robert Reid | September 7, 2015 - 2:21 pm | Places, RO-Rock Music, USA, Video
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Kindly watch this short video: Everything you know about fans of Rush is probably wrong. That sort of bore out recently when I attended RushCon, a “Star Trek convention for Rush fans,” and found out it’s NOT only guys miming drum fills in 18-minute … Read on →

Tagged music, Rush
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