http://www.therockologist.com/ The Rockologist en Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:15:00 GMT Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:15:00 GMT info@therockologist.com info@therockologist.com http://www.therockologist.com/an-urgent-plea-to-porcupine-trees-steven-wilson-dont-make-me-steal-your-record/2/ Steven Wilson, for the uninitiated, is best known as the creative brain-trust behind the British progressive rock group, Porcupine Tree. I can already hear a lot of you scratching your... http://www.therockologist.com/an-urgent-plea-to-porcupine-trees-steven-wilson-dont-make-me-steal-your-record/2/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/an-urgent-plea-to-porcupine-trees-steven-wilson-dont-make-me-steal-your-record/2/ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:15:00 GMT http://www.therockologist.com/got-my-cheap-trick-records-out/ I have to be honest and say that when I heard Sony/Legacy was doing yet another commemorative repackaging of Cheap Trick's legendary 1978 live At Budokan album, I was a... http://www.therockologist.com/got-my-cheap-trick-records-out/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/got-my-cheap-trick-records-out/ Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:35:00 GMT http://www.therockologist.com/why-its-okay-to-like-acdc-again/ Have you noticed all of the classic rock acts from the seventies and eighties coming out of the woodwork the past couple of weeks? If 2007 was the year of... http://www.therockologist.com/why-its-okay-to-like-acdc-again/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/why-its-okay-to-like-acdc-again/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:44:00 GMT http://www.therockologist.com/the-rockologist-on-chinese-democracy-and-doing-business-in-the-post-record-industry-era/2/ As many of you reading this have no doubt heard by now, Guns N' Roses have set an actual release date for the ten years plus in the making album... http://www.therockologist.com/the-rockologist-on-chinese-democracy-and-doing-business-in-the-post-record-industry-era/2/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/the-rockologist-on-chinese-democracy-and-doing-business-in-the-post-record-industry-era/2/ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:11:00 GMT http://www.therockologist.com/reconnecting-with-my-inner-creedence/2/ Growing up as a kid in the sixties -- with so much great music being produced in the golden age of rock and roll experimentation that it was -- there... http://www.therockologist.com/reconnecting-with-my-inner-creedence/2/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/reconnecting-with-my-inner-creedence/2/ Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:46:00 GMT http://www.therockologist.com/the-invincible-and-the-inevitable/ Michael Jackson turned 50 this weekend, and I can't help but feel a certain irony there. You see, as much as the Michael Jackson of 1983 symbolized everything about a... http://www.therockologist.com/the-invincible-and-the-inevitable/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/the-invincible-and-the-inevitable/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:59:00 GMT http://www.therockologist.com/past-present-future-and-peace-in-the-valley/2/ A lot of people may be somewhat puzzled by the picturesque scene of a Hawaiian Valley I've posted here. But as always, there is a story behind it. When I... http://www.therockologist.com/past-present-future-and-peace-in-the-valley/2/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/past-present-future-and-peace-in-the-valley/2/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:07:00 GMT http://www.therockologist.com/show-your-bootlegs-a-little-love/ So here's the thing. If you are a diehard music fanatic as I am, bootlegs are a fact of life. I mean how else are you going to get your... http://www.therockologist.com/show-your-bootlegs-a-little-love/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/show-your-bootlegs-a-little-love/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:37:00 GMT http://www.therockologist.com/remembering-early-u2-on-those-new-deluxe-reissues/ I think the thing that most immediately struck me the first time I heard U2 was the sound. The drums were huge, leaping out of the speakers and into your... http://www.therockologist.com/remembering-early-u2-on-those-new-deluxe-reissues/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/remembering-early-u2-on-those-new-deluxe-reissues/ Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:19:00 GMT http://www.therockologist.com/the-beach-the-sea-and-the-who/ When I was growing up in the seventies, I can honestly say that there were few artists that affected me in quite the same way that the Who did. On... http://www.therockologist.com/the-beach-the-sea-and-the-who/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/the-beach-the-sea-and-the-who/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:32:00 GMT http://www.therockologist.com/on-birdland-and-my-ongoing-schoolboy-crush-on-patti-smith/ Patti Smith has just released a new album called The Coral Sea and I'm pretty excited about it. The album is a collaboration with My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Sheilds where... http://www.therockologist.com/on-birdland-and-my-ongoing-schoolboy-crush-on-patti-smith/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/on-birdland-and-my-ongoing-schoolboy-crush-on-patti-smith/ Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:48:00 GMT http://www.therockologist.com/on-becoming-a-rock-critic/ You know that wannabe rock journalist kid modeled after Cameron Crowe in the hit movie Almost Famous? That was me. Seriously, I nearly cried watching that movie because it so... http://www.therockologist.com/on-becoming-a-rock-critic/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/on-becoming-a-rock-critic/ Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:27:00 GMT http://www.therockologist.com/remembering-the-night-i-knew-i-had/2/ This weekend here in West Seattle where I live, we are celebrating the annual summer street festival. It's a time when a lot of us old farts who live here... http://www.therockologist.com/remembering-the-night-i-knew-i-had/2/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/remembering-the-night-i-knew-i-had/2/ Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:14:00 GMT http://www.therockologist.com/remembering-the-time-al-stewart-stole-my-date/ As a twenty something record store clerk at the very beginning of what would prove to be a long career in the music business, Al Stewart was one of my... http://www.therockologist.com/remembering-the-time-al-stewart-stole-my-date/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/remembering-the-time-al-stewart-stole-my-date/ Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:54:00 GMT http://www.therockologist.com/the-rockologist-on-the-politics-of-music/2/ When you get to be my age, you find yourself doing more and more reminiscing about the good old days. I never understood this when my parents did it back... http://www.therockologist.com/the-rockologist-on-the-politics-of-music/2/#comments http://www.therockologist.com/the-rockologist-on-the-politics-of-music/2/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:36:00 GMT