Bruce Springsteen @ Rogers Arena

Bruce Springsteen @ Rogers Arena

Before he even came onstage, the crowd was chanting “Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuce!”.  It sounded remarkably like “Luuuuuuuu!” which we all know hasn’t been heard in Rogers Arena this fall thanks to the lockout and a likely trade if the NHL season ever does get underway. Expectations couldn’t have been any higher.  Bruce...
Toe Tappin' in Tennessee

Toe Tappin’ in Tennessee

When a city has the audacity to call itself Music City it had better have the auditory offerings to back that statement up.  There are, after all, many cities that could lay claim to such name.  And I’m sure there are many that snicker at the thought of Nashville, Tennessee...
The Big Easy

The Big Easy

She’s a mistress.  Well, at least she became my mistress after just one week in her presence.  She’s experienced and saucy, a little impractical and a lot of naughty.  She has many names, befitting her mystery and romance.  Call her Nola, Crescent City, The Big Easy – it really doesn’t...
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The Rewind Button - Final five album extravaganza wrap up!

The Rewind Button – Final five album extravaganza wrap up!

(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project.  Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.)  It’s 2013 and I have five albums left to review.  I promised myself that, if 2012 was a year of retro music for me, 2013 would see me return to today’s music.  I’m a...
The Rewind Button - David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars

The Rewind Button – David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars

(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project.  Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.)  There are many pitfalls to the concept album.  The first and greatest is the possibility that people just won’t get it.  Then comes the fear that they get it, but don’t identify with it. ...
The Rewind Button - The Band, Music From Big Pink

The Rewind Button – The Band, Music From Big Pink

(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project.  Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.)  I want to like Music From Big Pink.  Heck, I want to like all of the albums on this list.  So many respected musicians and music aficionados contributed to the rankings that I generally...
The Rewind Button - Ramones, Ramones

The Rewind Button – Ramones, Ramones

(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project.  Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.)  In July, I was on a booze cruise in English Bay, sipping a Corona on the starboard bow and watching the million dollar mansions of West Van bounce up and down with every wave....
The Rewind Button - The Rolling Stones, Let it bleed

The Rewind Button – The Rolling Stones, Let it bleed

(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project.  Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.)  There’s some irony to the fact that the opening track on Let it Bleed, Gimme Shelter, is comforting to me.  As a guitar lover, the first 50 seconds of Gimme Shelter is one of...
The Rewind Button - Bob Dylan, Bringing it all back home

The Rewind Button – Bob Dylan, Bringing it all back home

(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project.  Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.)  Sometimes, the better you get to know someone the greater your appreciation grows.  Sometimes the opposite is true. Bringing it all back home is Dylan’s fourth entry on Rolling Stone’s greatest albums list.  It...
Neil Young coming to Rogers Arena

Neil Young coming to Rogers Arena

Yup, I’m continuing my incredibly retro fall of concerts with Neil Young at Rogers Arena on Sunday night.  You know my thoughts on how the Bob Dylan concert went.  Somehow I remain undaunted – I think Neil’s going to rock it!  Tune in Monday to find out…
The Rewind Button - Joni Mitchell, Blue

The Rewind Button – Joni Mitchell, Blue

(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project.  Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.)  Good lord, can you hear the steel wheels of the train screeching?  Can you hear the rails groaning under the immense pressure of this locomotive coming right off the tracks?  What manner of madness...
The Rewind Button, Led Zeppelin, 'Led Zeppelin'

The Rewind Button, Led Zeppelin, ‘Led Zeppelin’

(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project.  Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.)  It was 1994 and my musical mind couldn’t possibly handle any more revelations.  This was back in the days when the internet was nothing more than a bunch of databases and Hotmail was the...
Bob Dylan @ Rogers Arena

Bob Dylan @ Rogers Arena

You might be wondering why this post is a week late and has no cover photo whatsoever.  If you are, then you’re reading this blog for which I thank you because I’ve been a terrible host. I guess I’m struggling a little with the point of this exercise I so cleverly dubbed MusicQwest – get...
The Rewind Button - The Who, Who's Next

The Rewind Button – The Who, Who’s Next

(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project.  Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.)  And then there were three. When we started the Rewind Button, we had a baker’s dozen bloggers dedicated to reviewing the 40 greatest albums of all time according to Rolling Stone.  We made it...
The Rewind Button - U2, The Joshua Tree

The Rewind Button – U2, The Joshua Tree

(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project.  Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.)  Every game night in Vancouver, the Canucks skate onto the ice to the tune of Where the streets have no name.  If you read the lyrics to this song, they have absolutely nothing to...