Posts Tagged Sweet Jane
Archive
February 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Velvet Underground’s Loaded: Loaded/Fully Loaded, 45 Years On And Still Going…
Those four studio albums by The Velvet Underground all made a huge impact on me. But the sentimental favourite is Loaded – it was the very first CD I purchased. I was a tape buyer, right through until the early-1990s, I wasn’t going to give up that tape collection…I had a tape-deck in my car […]Archive
July 31, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Dick Wagner
Dick Wagner died July 30. He was 71. A guitarist who worked with several of rock’s biggest names and played on albums by KISS, Hal & Oates and Peter Gabriel, Wagner is best known for his work with Steve Hunter forming the twin-guitar attack so crucial to Alice Cooper and, briefly as the spearhead of […]Archive
August 14, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1896
Lou Reed, Live: Take No Prisoners (1978) As far as live albums go it’s flawed – as far as stand-up comedy albums go it’s perfect. Here Lou Reed showed how punk he really was, no need for guitars, no need for conventional song-structures, no need for not having contempt for the audience. Here Lou Reed […]Archive
July 11, 2011 by Simon Sweetman