
GETTING CLOSER TO BEING SLAYED BY SLADE
I never got into the British band Slade. I don’t recall ever hearing any of Slade’s songs when I was a teen in the mid-70s and would buy almost anything that sounded good on the radio and would also shell…

Bob Andrews Revisits Katrina with “Katrina Revisited” Six Song Streaming EP
Bob Andrews was fortunate. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005 he was in Baton Rouge, having smartly booked a hotel there a few weeks before the storm hit. His home in Algiers, on the West Bank of the…

R.I.P. Barrie Masters
R.I.P. Barrie Masters, who passed away a few days ago. He was the vocalist for Eddie and the Hot Rods. I remember the way their song, the anthemic Do Anything You Wanna Do exploded from the speakers the first time…