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10 Albums That Changed My Life
Fifty years ago, Chris Difford put a card in a London sweetshop window stating that he was looking for a guitarist to join his band. Difford did not actually have a band at the time, but soon would as the only person to respond to Difford was Glenn T
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In The Beatles Spotlight
Very few people penetrated The Beatles’ sanctum. Mal Evans was one of the fortunate few brought into the Fab Four’s incredibly tight inner circle where he served a professional role as a hardworking roadie and personal assistant who catered 24/7 to t
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Editor’s Note
IT MAKES TOTAL SENSE to assign a rock photographer to interview another rock photographer. They are both on the same wavelength. There are things that professional photographers focus on that no one with an iPhone camera can even comprehend. In this
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MUMY Melodies
While Bill Mumy first came to prominence as a child actor through his memorable guest roles on The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Bewitched and most notably as the character Will Robinson on the popular ’60s series Lost in Space, what many
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Getting The Beatles Back One Last Time
Get back indeed. On November 2, 2023, more than 25 years after the release of two new Beatles songs for the group’s multipart Anthology documentary series (“Free As a Bird” and “Real Love,” which featured surviving members Paul McCartney, George Harr
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Vinyl Daze Records
Address: 958 Laskin Rd, Virgina Beach, VA Shop Hours: Mon-Sat: 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sun: 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Phone: 757-963-6363 Web Site: www.vinyldazerecords.com Add this to a growing list of stores that I would go out of my way to visit. Vinyl Daz
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PUBLISHER Enrique Abeyta EDITORIAL EDITOR Patrick Prince DESIGN Dave Hauser COPY EDITOR Chris M. Junior CONTRIBUTING EDITORS John M. Borack, Ray Chelstowski, John Curley, Frank Daniels, John French, Gillian G. Gaar, Mike Greenblatt, Chris M. Junior
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Grooves
Amidst all the kerfuffle surrounding the 50th anniversary of that Pink Floyd album (and just two years to go before we do it all again for Wish You Were Here), it’s refreshing to know that not everybody has fallen beneath its spell. There is, for exa
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From Red And Blue To Now And Then
It’s been a long and winding road to get to the release of “Now and Then,” the latest reunion single by The Beatles, finally released over a quarter of a century after Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr first began working with a John Le
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Bernie Taupin
Bernie Taupin has a way with words, but you already knew that. Elton John has famously acknowledged that there would be no songs, no Elton John, if it weren’t for the words that came first. But Taupin’s way with words far transcends his lyrics. Scatt
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Mumy’s Best
THE KINGSTON TRIO at Melodyland Theatre in Anaheim. I was a big folkie fan as a kid, and the Trio was my favorite band. My best pal Scott was really into them, too. We went to this 1967 gig and in between songs, John Stewart of the Trio announced “Bi
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Symphonic Ranger
The truth is that behind the scenes, many of the bands we see onstage today are less about fun and more about business. And that’s fine, but as a fan who loves said band’s music, you’d like to think that the musicians onstage at least like each other
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Jersey Boys
As long as there has been popular music, there has been music photography. The two go hand in hand, and the images that the photographers capture are still a vital link between artist and audience. This is especially true in a bygone era where every
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Sonic Mojo Of Foghat
As Foghat’s only continuous member since the group’s inception in 1971 and as an early member of Savoy Brown, Roger Earl has seen it all. Earl was there for the gold-certified years that featured records such as Foghat (1972), Energized (1974) and Ro
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5 Top Randy Meisner Songs
It’s ironic that the song that was Meisner’s most successful was also the one that caused him the greatest concern. He wrote the first couple of lines on his own, but when it came time to enter the studio to record the album that it had been destined
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Guess Who’s Back … And Still Going Strong
Few bands have as intriguing — one might say, unlikely — a history as The Guess Who. In retrospect, they might have been considered a supergroup of sorts, given that they housed the twin talents of singer and keyboard player Burton Cummings and guita
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Randy Meisner
After working with the likes of Poco and Rick Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band, Randy Meisner found international fame as a founding member of the Eagles. An immensely talented bass player and versatile singer-songwriter, Meisner delivered the band’s 1975
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Skyward Skynyrd
Few bands have ever been forced to overcome as much tragedy and adversity as Lynyrd Skynyrd. Taking their name from Leonard Skinner, a gym coach at the high school the original members attended — and a man known as a strict disciplinarian given his d
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PUBLISHER Enrique Abeyta EDITORIAL EDITOR Patrick Prince DESIGN Dave Hauser COPY EDITOR Chris M. Junior CONTRIBUTING EDITORS John M. Borack, Ray Chelstowski, John Curley, Frank Daniels, John French, Gillian G. Gaar, Mike Greenblatt, Chris M. Junior
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Eagles Hot Wax
As the Eagles continue on their “Long Goodbye” tour, Goldmine takes a look at their vinyl footprint, which, contrary to popular belief, is much deeper than you’d think. Sure, the Eagles’ records can be found throughout record shops worldwide. And yes
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Best Spins (so Far)
Divorce Roger Waters from whatever personal politics it is that so outrage people, and there’d be little doubt that he is — more than ever before — among the most visionary and enthralling veteran performers we’ve got going for us today. Fifty years
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Top Street Survivors
Texas twisters ZZ Top recently completed tour dates with southern rock icons Lynyrd Skynyrd, in a double bill strafed with hot guitar licks and at the lyric end, steeped in hard rock Americana. As for La Futura, who knows? Possibly a fresh new ZZ Top
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Eagles Soar With Mobile Fidelity
When the era and genres of classic rock are pondered upon, discussed between music fans, contemplated among music collectors and listened to over any one of the plethora of classic rock radio stations that exist (both wave and satellite), the Eagles
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Editor’s Note
Goldmine kicks off autumn with four covers for our subscribers: Eagles, Randy Meisner, ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd (shown at right). In honor of all three bands, we have curated collector’s edition bundles for the issue — with alternate covers, slipcas
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The Art of Collecting Northern Soul
To gain a better understand of the history of Northern Soul and its place in the record collecting world, Goldmine had the pleasure of talking to “rare soul man” John Manship, a collector and dealer whose reputation and knowledge place him in the top
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The Record Farm
LOGANSPORT, INDIANA Address: 430 E. Broadway, Logansport, IN Shop Hours: Wed-Thurs: 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Fri-Sat 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Phone: 574-835-3276 Web Site: Facebook While this store might seem small when you first walk in, once you take a minute to re
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10 Albums That Changed My Life
As an original member of the San Francisco psychedelic rock band Moby Grape (and even part of a reformed Electric Prunes from 2000 to 2003), Peter Lewis has revealed the depth of his creative consciousness through music. But the guitarist digs even d
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A Talk With Talmy
Granted, Shel Talmy’s efforts were behind the scenes, but in the mid to late ’60s, he easily rivaled George Martin and Andrew Loog Oldham as one of the key hitmakers in the early days of the British Invasion. The songs that he produced — The Kinks’ “
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Book Excerpt
Before the curious Who fan could get home and tuck into the music enclosed, he or she had the bus ride back from the shop, upon which the Quadrophenia graphics in all their explanatory glory could be perused. Beginning with the front cover, we are pr
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Issue 945, Vol. 49, No. 3 PUBLISHER Enrique Abeyta EDITORIAL EDITOR Patrick PrinceDESIGN Dave HauserCOPY EDITOR Chris M. JuniorCONTRIBUTING EDITORS John M. Borack, Ray Chelstowski, John Curley, Frank Daniels, John French, Gillian G. Gaar, Mike Gree
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