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What If? Buddy Holly not taken that one last ride…

By Gary Pig Gold • 05/10/2012

Those should’ve been the days:
Dateline,
February 3, 2012
Yessir, that last tour was sure a sumbitch, wasn’t it? Winter Dance Party my lone starred ass! More …

A Joey Ramone Remembrance

By Gary Pig Gold • 04/15/2012

Late one night in very late 1976, a singer acquaintance of mine burst into the (condemned) house I was then sharing with the local …

The Beatles – A Fab Forty

By Gary Pig Gold • 03/15/2012

Has it really been nearly five decades already since television’s greatest-ever talent scout took a chance on a brash young musical novelty act from …

Gary Pig Gold wonders WHO PUT THE BOMP?

By Gary Pig Gold • 03/06/2012

Why, GREG SHAW, of course!

Besides Those Beatles

By Gary Pig Gold • 02/09/2012

You know what I was doing precisely forty-eight years ago, February 9?
Sitting far too close in front of my family’s Zenith television, bouncing …

They ain’t heavy….

By Gary Pig Gold • 02/08/2012

Never as naughty as the Rolling Stones, nor as pin-up perfect as Herman’s Hermits; seldom as musically adventurous as the Yardbirds, nitty-gritty as the …

Charles Hardin Holley [Sep 7, 1936 – Feb 3, 1959]

By Gary Pig Gold • 02/03/2012

Precisely fifty-three years since the music supposedly died,
TEN REASONS WHY
BUDDY HOLLY
STILL MATTERS
1. THE CHIRPING CRICKETS
Buddy Holly, alongside rhythm guitarist Niki Sullivan, bassist Joe B. …

All Time Top Ten Power Pop People

By Gary Pig Gold • 02/02/2012

ALL TIME TOP TEN POWER POP PEOPLE
(in chronological order)
Certainly we could all be arguing blue-faced until that mythical Next Big Thing finally arrives over …