Professional photographer David Gahr captured a few of the most iconic recording covers from the postwar period, spanning from Kilometers Davis’ A Tribute to Jack port Johnson to Bruce Springsteen’s The Crazy, the Innocent & the E Road Shuffle. He’s nevertheless most widely known for documenting Bob Dylan’s epochal electrical …

Salloom, Sinclair and Mom Carry were a past due-’60s psychedelic music group with a lively but clumsy combination of blues-rock, Bob Dylan-ish folk-rock lyrics, plus some generic SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA psychedelic-style heavy rock and roll. Their vocals had been handled by primary vocalist/songwriter Roger Salloom as well as the …

Image designer Tom Wilkes created some of the most iconic and important images in pop music history, masterminding covers for landmark recordings like the Rolling Rocks’ Beggars Banquet, Janis Joplin’s Pearl, and Neil Young’s Harvest. Delivered in Long Seaside, CA, on July 30, 1939, Wilkes funded research at Long Seaside …

Buckingham Nicks (or, as it’s sometimes written, Buckingham/Nicks) were a short-lived duo made up of guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham (b. Palo Alto, CA, Oct. 3, 1948) and vocalist Stevie Nicks (b. Phoenix, AZ, Might 26, 1948). Buckingham and Nicks acquired fulfilled at Menlo Atherton SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in Atherton, CA, where …

Tongue and Groove were something of the offshoot from the legendary but little-recorded, early SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA hippie group the Charlatans. Vocalist Lynne Hughes acquired occasionally sung using the Charlatans on-stage in the middle-’60s (although she was hardly ever the official member), as well as shows up on vocals …

Who owns the famed Grande Ballroom, Russ Gibb was among the seminal figures behind the rise from the Detroit music scene from the 1960s — a respected schoolteacher and a pioneering radio personality, he was also notorious for starting the infamous “Paul Is Dead” conspiracy which continues to fully capture …

A mediocre singer-songwriter, who recorded three forgettable albums in the early-1970s, Barry Drake has found his true getting in touch with being a lecturer on the annals of stone. Called “Campus lecturer of the entire year”, with the Natrional Association for Campus Actions, in 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000, …

The Seattle rock scene from the later ’80s/early ’90s is strewn with music artists whose promising careers were cut short. But perhaps one of the most tragic tales was that of Gits head Mia Zapata, who was simply murdered just like her band appeared to be getting the interest it …

Quill were a Boston-based hard rock-band that enjoyed some regional recognition, and a momentary adobe flash of national publicity by playing in the Woodstock event in August of 1969. The quintet was co-founded by siblings John Cole (bass, acoustic guitar, vocals) and Dan Cole (vocals, acoustic guitar, trombone) — the …

A session singer for quite some time, Maria Lawson is most beneficial known to be on the getting end of 1 pop reality TV’s most controversial eliminations. Given birth to in London in 1975, Lawson started singing young. Influenced by famous brands Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Tina Turner, she …