Jeff Slate
On-air @SiriusXM; contributor @WSJ @NewYorker @RollingStone etc; author @RoyOrbison biog; liner notes @BobDylan @TheBeatles @JimiHendrix @RollingStones more
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1 week ago |
rockcellarmagazine.com | Jeff Slate
Rock Cellar: You’re in the public eye, and you’re sharing success. You’re in front of big crowds. There’s money involved. I mean, that’s a lot for young guys to manage. And I think the way you portrayed it was very loving, but it was, like I said, honest, but it’s also all told within the context of the larger story. Mike Campbell: Well, I just wanted to make it interesting and uplifting, hopefully. And I just didn’t talk about things that I thought were either not interesting or just stupid.
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1 month ago |
rockcellarmagazine.com | Jeff Slate
Benmont Tench at the YouTube Theater, Feb. 25, 2022 (Jérôme Brunet Photography) After a decade of personal tumult and health worries, Benmont Tench — Rock & Roll Hall of Fame pianist and co-founder of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers — is back with an elegant new album and a tour.
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2 months ago |
rockcellarmagazine.com | Jeff Slate
Long before the reductive “Disco Sucks” campaign of the late-1970s, The Sound of Philadelphia was bringing old school R&B and soul to the pop charts. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, the O’Jays, Billy Paul, Lou Rawls and the Stylistics were scoring massive hits on the R&B and dance charts, but were also crossing over into the mainstream, courtesy of producers like Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and ace arrangers like Thom Bell.
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2 months ago |
rockcellarmagazine.com | Jeff Slate
Below, writer Jeff Slate discusses the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown with author Elijah Wald, whose Dylan Goes Electric! was the basis for the acclaimed new film. For any author, having his book optioned by Hollywood is a pinch me moment. But to have it become a smash success, and one that will likely define a legend the size of Bob Dylan for millions of people just discovering the icon’s origin story, has got to be an amazing experience.
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Nov 14, 2024 |
rockcellarmagazine.com | Jeff Slate
Mike McCartney (Photo: Genesis Publications) Imagine having to compete with your older, more accomplished and more successful brother, who had already staked out a name for himself in the music business. Now imagine that older brother was Paul McCartney. After the demise of his first band The Scaffold, and a one off with Liverpool poet Roger McGough, Mike McCartney had decent success with his first solo album, Woman, in 1972.
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