Categories: Legends of Rock

• Read It Out Loud! KISS Alive for bookworms who missed it!

  It’s Kiss Alive! (again) for anyone who’s avoided KISS for 35 years because they were too busy reading!

• Is It Really Magic? How Springsteen Channeled past Hits—and coffee—to create his latest born to sell album

  Springsteen’s secret relationship to the mountain-grown taste of Folgers revealed here!

• Creedence Clearwater Revisited: Who Shot CCR?

  This was written for CreemMagazine.com in August 2006 Bad Moon Revisited or New Creedence for Non-Believers? Like you, cherished reader, I hate seeing bands without their original singers. Shall I tell you about the time I caught a Herman-less Hermits, an outfit whose only link to the good old days was the original drummer? Or the time I suffered through a Guess Who reunion album that had neither Randy Bachman nor Burton Cummings on it, as if someone ever decreed, [...]

• Syd Barrett 1946-2006: Pass On, You Crazy Diamond

  Eight reasons why we’ll remember Syd Barrett long after we’ve forgotten which one’s Pink.

• Freddie and the Dreamers: The Dream is Still Over

  This originally ran in both the Serene Dominic Companion and the first issue of The Vic and was utilized again as a eulogy for Freddie Garrity by Creem Magazine Online in 2006.

• The Yardbirds: Train keeps a’rollin’

  As founding member Chris Dreja tells it, making a new Yardbirds album after 35 years seemed daunting: “That’s a long holiday. We’ve been dormant like some bacteria for all that time. Waiting to unleash itself.”

• Burt Bacharach: Burt’s Still the Word

  The newly rediscovered Burt Bacharach has a history most fans have never even heard about.

• Hold On, I’m Burton Cummings!

  Burton Cummings is either rock’s most unsung hero or its most overlooked fugitive pervert.

• Terry Jack’s Seasons in the Sun… THE MOVIE! by Serene Dominic

  You cringed through it in song form, now convulse at its never-before-seen long form video!

• Madonna: Like a Vigin Goddess or The Capitol of India is Nipple!

  Madonna’s excursion into Hindu mysticism proves it—the capitol of India is NIPPLE! by Serene Dhamonic