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March 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Hal Blaine
Hal Blaine has died. The session drumming legend was 90. What a life. What a legacy. If he wasn’t the most prolific sessioneer skinsman he was certainly the most successful of the busy-schedule players. A part of one of the greatest groups of all time – The Wrecking Crew (not a band as such, a collective […]Archive
December 28, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 148: Joan Baez
Welcome to episode 148 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here’s something a little different for the podcast. A conversation with legendary singer, songwriter, protester, activist and icon Joan Baez. Now, although this is the first-time broadcasting this – it is not a brand new conversation. It was recorded […]Archive
May 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Tour Announcement: Bob Dylan to play TWO NZ Shows (August, 2018)
Bob Dylan will play Auckland’s Spark Arena on Sunday, August 26 and Christchurch’s Horncastle Arena on Tuesday, August 28. These will be Dylan’s first New Zealand dates since 2014 and the first time he’s played Auckland since 2011. The Dylan Neverending Tour reaches Australia in August and then down to New Zealand.Archive
June 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Reggae Knights: Ten Important Reggae Albums In My Life
I started this thing a while ago where I made lists of the top albums that I considered important – it’s a personal list; the albums that introduced me to a genre and have become firm favourites and/or pointed the way. The idea being that I list out my ten favourites – my ten important […]Archive
April 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Bob Marley & Me: Finding My Way To Marley and Then Back In Again
The first Bob Marley song I was ever aware of was Buffalo Soldier – it was a posthumous hit, released in 1983. And of course it became one of Bob’s biggest songs. A year later the compilation Legend turned up. I was a young kid but this album blew me away. I now have a […]Archive
March 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 570
Quincy Jones And His Orchestra, Quincy Jones plays The Hip Hits (1963) The musical worlds of Quincy Jones – so big, so many, so huge, daunting. There’s Jones the player, the arranger, the bandleader, producer and then super-producer, he trialled hip-hop, he aced jazz, he’s a pop wizard; one of the legends of popular music […]Archive
January 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
DJ Setlist: Bowie’s Birthday Bash – Tribute to David Bowie on his 70th Birthday, San Fran, Sunday, January 8, 2017
Well, we paid tribute to David Bowie on his 70th Birthday in the only way we know how – just as last year we played a tribute show at the San Fran with various DJs so it was again. I played the opening afternoon set, and then a little blast a bit later on too…in-between […]Archive
October 24, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 611
Glen Campbell, Country (1972) Just recently I’ve noticed a bunch of people popping off about this Glen Campbell doco – I didn’t think it was up to much actually; his wife seemed horrid, and sending him out there to flog the nearly dead horse, and almost blindly too. It is a very sad decline for […]Archive
April 6, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Merle Haggard
One of the greatest voices in country music has been silenced. Merle Haggard looked and sounded like he was carved from stone, even the name ‘Merle Haggard’, those words, looked on paper like something chiselled away at,all that was left from the starting granite. Merle was one of those names and faces and voices and […]Archive
January 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. David Bowie
David Bowie (b. David Jones, January 8, 1947) was a singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, painter and actor. He was an icon. He remains that. We throw about words like ‘Legend’ and ‘Icon’ too easily these days. It’s hard to think of just one word to encapsulate Bowie. But we could use the word ‘Artist’ – […]Archive
June 24, 2015 by Simon Sweetman