by Dale Dalenberg | Nov 20, 2016 | Music
Prog Rock = Progressive Rock = a musical aberration from the 1970’s that is either loved or despised. What was it? Prog rock is simply a musical style that is what it is when you point at it and call it prog. It’s that sort of thing. You can’t define it, but you...
by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 15, 2016 | Books, Music, News, people
And the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature goes to. . . Bob Dylan! What?! Why not?! No question that this was a controversial award. There are many who have applauded it, but there are a vocal few who feel that giving this award to a white, American song-writer who has...
by Alex Dalenberg | Feb 12, 2014 | Music
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.February 12, 2014I was a terrible piano student. At age 12 or 13, in the mid-1970s, when I am sure we could ill afford it, my mother plunked down something like $12.00 per half-hour lesson, and week after week I would show up at my teacher’s...
by Alex Dalenberg | Jan 13, 2014 | Music
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.January 13, 2013 Apparently I am a dinosaur when it comes to my collecting habits, because I still buy music CD’s. In fact, I even buy LP’s, usually used ones, especially if I think I won’t be able to find the music on CD. Back...
by Alex Dalenberg | Sep 30, 2013 | Music, people
By Alex DalenbergSeptember 29, 2013 Greetings from your editor. I’ve been meaning to put up a post on this for a while here, but a friend of mind bringing home a copy of Philip K. Dick ‘s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ...
by Alex Dalenberg | Sep 11, 2013 | Music, people
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.September 10, 2013 After 41 albums, now starting on his 6th decade as an American musical icon, Bob Dylan’s saga is nothing short of legendary. For those of us who care about such music, and there are a lot of us, we know the story by...