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December 21, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 113: Fishbone – “Truth and Soul”

I never ever listened to Fishbone – but I have a feeling I meant to. At least at one point or other. I recall reading about their drummer, Phillip “Fish” Fisher – and I had them somewhere between Bad Brains and Living Colour and maybe that’s exactly where they are. And maybe it’s not. But […]

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December 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Living Colour (December 13; Wgtn)

Living Colour San Fran Thursday, December 13 Living Colour formed in New York in the mid-80s and across the late-1980s and into the mid-1990s they achieved their biggest fame with an impressive run of albums that started in 1988 with debut, Vivid and rolled through 1990’s Time’s Up and 1993’s Stain. From there thee was […]

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April 30, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

“To Katie”: The Memorabilia You Never Wanted

Many music fans have signed t-shirts, albums, ticket-stubs; the experience of receiving (collecting) gig/album-related ephemera, of meeting someone famous, or simply bidding on a signed item (after someone else did the work of meeting, greeting and coaxing the signature) is all part of being a music fan. For some fans anyway. But what about when […]

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January 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Will Calhoun: Life In This World

Will Calhoun Life In This World Motema Music Best known as the drummer for Living Colour Will Calhoun has made music as a solo artist and clinician, working with electronics, drums and percussion and here he offers a jazz set, moving – in fact – from straight jazz and standards through to original compositions which […]