Rock & Roll | Rock & Roll
Aug.18.2012
When the Fog City Geezers sign a recording contract with Fluorescent Records, band founder JP Kinkaid makes an unusual decision: to record a live show as their first CD.
Climbing into a tour bus named Magic with the band and his wife, Bree, he's expecting no more than the usual glitches and...
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Aug.18.2012
The conclusion of Blacklight’s exhausting Book of Days tour finds guitarist JP Kinkaid recuperating at home in San Francisco. As JP’s local band, the Fog City Geezers, plans gigs at Marin County’s 707 Club, the club is put up for sale. Blacklight, seeing an opportunity to preserve a classic venue...
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Sep.08.2011
The release of Blacklight's double CD, Book of Days, looks like business as usual. The relaxed tour showcases a revolutionary new set design, as well as Bombardiers keyboard ace Tony Mancuso along as a guest. No one can predict what happens next: the CD goes multi-platinum, generating the need...
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May.30.2008
As a friend and cohort of some of rock music's biggest legends - the Who, Rod Stewart and the Faces, the Rolling Stones, the Eagles, Joe Walsh and the James Gang, and many others- photographer Tom Wright was given unparalleled access to almost every aspect of the musicians' lives, on- and offstage...
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May.30.2008
Gene Vincent - most famous for his classic 1956 single "Be-Bop-A-Lula" - is one of the most influential rock 'n' roll artists of all time. Race With The Devil is the first American biography of this musical pioneer, and the most comprehensive survey ever written of Vincent's...
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Jan.06.2008
Even rock stars have to eat, and Margie Lapanja and Cindy Coverdale have polled dozens of guitarists, drummers, and singers to find out what they like to eat out and what they like to cook for themselves. Fans will pore over Food That Rocks for recipes that will make them feel emotionally closer to...
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Jan.06.2008
In 1993, fifteen of America's most popular writers left their day jobs for life on the rock & roll road. They stayed up late, ate junk food, traveled by bus, and actually tried to play and sing before paying audiences. Here's the whole sordid story, in hard-to-believe words and even harder-to-...
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Jan.04.2008
One legendary band on a sold-out American tour. One sleazy biographer digging up old secrets and opening old wounds. One ageing guitarist, with a crippling illness and a twisted past. One woman who will do anything to keep her hold over him, and another who will do anything to protect him.
The...
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