Dino Danelli
An Elegant Roughness When the Beatles invaded the Western Hemisphere in 1964, and planeloads of their countrymen followed shortly thereafter, the future of American music was in jeopardy. All that […]
Fine Art Magazine 42 years of covering the creative
An Elegant Roughness When the Beatles invaded the Western Hemisphere in 1964, and planeloads of their countrymen followed shortly thereafter, the future of American music was in jeopardy. All that […]
”COME ON IN” Welcome to our preview edition of “Walkin’ and Talkin’ the Blues.” This publication is a work-in-progress containing a fraction of what what will be a much larger
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The Wailers started out in the late fifties as a vocal trio with Bob Marley. Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingstone the founders. Our correspondent Jay Fish, a reggae musicologist and the disc jockey at WUBS and select nightclubs, visited the trio in their Wailing Wailers Record Shack in the heart of downtown Kingston late in August, 1973.
Other Worlds The Wailing Wailers Speak Read More »
A generation after his death, and a half century since he and his eponymous blues band forever changed the mosaic of the international musical scene, the legend of Paul Butterfield
The Paul Butterfield Story Read More »
There’s Still Something Happening Here Jimmy Messina picked up his first guitar at the age of five, influenced by the giants of early rock and roll, Scotty Moore (Elvis) and
Jim Messina Interview by Victor Forbes Read More »
While living and working with artists for over three decades, it has been my privilege to interview many to further understand the communicative dialogue that exists between an artist and
From The Publisher: Jamie Ellin Forbes Read More »
“The earth was formless and void…and God said, Let there be light.” (Genesis 1:2–3, NASB) By Victor Forbes “With the pen of a ready writer”, (Psalm 45:1) Dr. Gwendolyn Reasoner
Gwen Reasoner by VF Read More »
A Long Strange Trip That Ended Too Soon Nov. 14, 1970 — I somehow managed to convince our lead singer/ lead guitarist to venture from Belmont Avenue up in the
Belmont Avenue This street, like any other live being, would be entitled to an aura of its own. It didn’t breathe but it offered air to its inhabitants; it didn’t
Dion and the Belmonts Read More »
Buried Alive in the Blues…and the reds, and the greens, and the yellows, Christopher Parker paints to the rhythmic strokes of brush on canvas By VICTOR FORBES Though it wasn’t
Christopher Parker paints to the rhythmic strokes of brush on canvas Read More »
Ace Frehley is certainly one of the most well known names in rock and roll, if not it’s most beloved guitarist. As the lone solo instrument in KISS, he has
Ace Frehley, Computer Artist, Tests His Imagination Read More »
Twenty plus years ago, my partner Judith and I lived in Montauk, New York, where she owned a down and dirty rock and roll bar called the Memory Motel. The
Born to be a Wild Artist Read More »
“Sometimes there are no clues it can happen to you out of the blue…” Many hundreds of thousands, if not millions of a certain age and taste in music, will
Kim Simmonds a Passion for Painting Read More »