Posts by Gary Pig Gold

Brian Wilson: Songwriter, 1962-1969

By Gary Pig Gold • 01/26/2012

As those Beach Boys prepare to do it again for their 50th Anniversary, Gary Pig Gold reminds us of…..
TEN REASONS WHY
BRIAN WILSON: SONGWRITER, 1962 …

Fan Tan: Jan Berry, In Memoriam

By Gary Pig Gold • 01/25/2012

“He knew how to produce records very well. He had a very strong spirit for recording music. He was a great producer.”
When no less …

“The Greatest Rock Movie You’ve Never Seen,” according to Steven Van Zandt

By Gary Pig Gold • 01/23/2012

Attention, music fans and pop culture connoisseurs everywhere:
Your assignment today is to gather together in one medium-sized concert facility, for one evening only, one …

Meet The Beatles… only Somewhere Else.

By Gary Pig Gold • 01/22/2012

Being eight years old in the Toronto suburbs of 1963, I was at the perfect age – and in the perfect place – to, …

Much More Of The Monkees

By Gary Pig Gold • 01/19/2012

Can it really be true that Rolling Stone publisher/magnate Jann S. Wenner has personally conducted a decades-long campaign to bar The Monkees from induction …

Noughtie Top Twenty-One

By Gary Pig Gold • 01/04/2012

Despite an alarming amount of critical mass to (and by) the contrary, there truly was much, much more worth hearing this decade just past …

Dennis Diken and his Bell Sound

By Gary Pig Gold • 01/02/2012

Discriminating consumers of only the best in rock ‘n’ pop have long revered Dennis Diken as drummer with those rightfully legendary Smithereens. Yet did …