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Joan Baez Interview: On Bob Dylan and Aging - Best Classic Bands

Jan 9, 2025 | bestclassicbands.com | Jim Sullivan

Joan Baez 2018 Interview: On Bob Dylan and Agingby Jim Sullivan Joan BaezIn 1977, Judas Priest threw their fans a sharp-breaking curveball with a hard-rocking cover of Joan Baez’s “Diamonds and Rust,” released by her two years prior. The initial thought may have been that Priest was goofing—the original song was so out of their genre, so identified with a relationship Baez had had with Bob Dylan.
How Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah shows became the most joyous bash of the holiday season

Dec 20, 2024 | forward.com | Jim Sullivan

By Jim Sullivan December 20, 2024It's the season of giving and no indie rock band gives back better than the Hoboken, N.J.-based trio Yo La Tengo. Consider what they give:* Music, to an audience of 575 people each night for eight straight at New York City's Bowery Ballroom: On one hand, fans awaiting this (mostly) annual skein know what to expect, but, then again, they don't.
Promising 'no stupid Hanukkah songs,' The Leevees strive for a 'two-song solution'

Nov 26, 2024 | forward.com | Jim Sullivan

Near the end of the last century, Dec. 3, 1994, many folks got their first exposure to Hanukkah music via Adam Sandler's "Chanukah Song" on Saturday Night Live. Was that, perhaps, the impetus for the LeeVees, a quintet formed by Guster singer-guitarist Adam Gardner and Zambonis singer-guitarist Dave Schneider?
How a Jewish deep-sea diver found treasure, shipwrecks and Leonard Bernstein

Nov 12, 2024 | forward.com | Jim Sullivan

It all started with one gold coin. That's how Howard Rosenstein's career as a scuba diver, entrepreneur, explorer and raconteur began. It was August, 1968 and Rosenstein, a long-haired surfer kid of 19, had come to Israel from Los Angeles to attend college and study anthropology and archeology in Tel Aviv. He'd done some skin diving in the United States and was snorkeling in the Mediterranean. Two years later, he dove down eight feet, saw something flicker on the ocean floor and scooped it up.
How a Jewish kid from Upper Manhattan became a rock 'n' roll legend

Aug 2, 2024 | forward.com | Jim Sullivan

You probably know Lenny Kaye as Patti Smith's right-hand man - guitar-slinger and co-songwriter going back to her debut album, Horses, in 1975. And also, perhaps, as the chronicler and compiler of the famous double-album of garage rock and psychedelic gems from the '60s released in 1972, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968.
Interview: Ringo's Drum Beat Can't Be Beat - Best Classic Bands

Jul 7, 2024 | bestclassicbands.com | Jim Sullivan

Kvetch all you want to about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but the respect came rolling in for one Richard Starkey on April 18, 2015, in Cleveland. The man we’ve known for all these years as Ringo Starr was finally inducted into the Hall as a solo artist, the last of the Beatles to be so honored. The guy who inducted him was the same fella who pushed hard for his nomination, Paul McCartney.
A century-old Jewish tale of demonic possession

Jun 7, 2024 | forward.com | Jim Sullivan

"I don't know how to do a play modernizing it." he said. "If a play is done without modernizing it, it means it's a museum piece. And then it's irrelevant to the people's lives today." Right now, Golyak. who founded Arlekin in 2010, is directing a play he also co-adapted, at Vilna Shul in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood. It's an intimate, confrontational, supernatural and highly physical version of , a play S.
The saga of an Israeli hostage inspires a song of celebration and defiance

May 23, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Jim Sullivan

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The saga of an Israeli hostage inspires a song of celebration and defiance

May 23, 2024 | forward.com | Jim Sullivan

The protagonist of the song is a captive. "We're sitting in a darkened room, can't tell the night from day," the vocalist sings. "But if I get out, I imagine just what I'd say." When she's told she is being released she wonders if it's a cruel ruse: Is it freedom or a trap? It's the former.
A pioneering Jewish rock band got its start in 1965; they're still slowly and steadily turtling along

Apr 19, 2024 | forward.com | Jim Sullivan

Against the odds, the Turtles carry on. The group, formed by Jewish singer-guitarists Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan in 1965, began helming a multi-band tour comprising '60s rock groups in 1984. It kicked up again in 2010 and has continued under the banner of the Happy Together Tour - "Happy Together" being the Turtles No. 1 hit from 1967.