Happy New Year!

We are looking forward to another great year in Music and we hope you stay tuned in with us.  CyberCoder

Ramble On…Let’s all have a Great 08!!  MikieSoft

Thought you might need a little flashback, so here is KISS playing Rock And Roll All Nite, Live At The Continental Airlines Arena On New Year’s Eve, 1996

2007 was an amazing year for classic rock! We flashed back to the Summer of Love in 1967 and celebrated musical milestones like the Monterey Pop Festival. We saw some of our favorite groups reunite for a world tour, like Genesis and Van Halen. And Eric Clapton hosted his second Crossroads Guitar Festival featuring guitarists B.B. King to Steve Winwood. I give thanks for such great music, when 40 year anniversaries ping back to 1967 and it all came together in San Francisco and down in Monterey.

I saw Clapton live in concert back in March with Doyle Bramhall II and Derek Trucks on slide guitar, and they just tore it up at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. They played alot of tunes from the early 70’s like “Motherless Children,” “Anyday and Tell the Truth” from the Layla album.

The 30th Annual Dallas International Guitar Festival featured guitars on display from Clapton, Hendrix, Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Leo Fender and the first Marshall amps. Eric Johnson performed along with others like Andy Timmons and Rick Derringer

R.I.P. Dan Fogelberg 1951–2007:
Dan Fogelberg may be gone but he’s not forgotten. One of my favorite albums from 1978 is Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg’s “Twin Sons of Different Mothers” with “The Power of Gold.” Blog Tribute

New Albums from:
Back Door Slam (great debut album from 3 piece blues rock trio from Isle of Man UK)
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band “Magic”
Carly Simon “Into White”
Dream Theater “Systematic Chaos” (plus a Special Enhanced Edition CD for PC)
The Eagles “Long Road Out Of Eden” (Double CD of new songs)
Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino! (Double CD Tribute)
Gary Moore “Close as You Get”
Jethro Tull Live at Montreux (also on DVD)
Dear Mr. Fantasy Featuring the Music of Jim Capaldi & Traffic (also on DVD)
Jimmie Vaughan & Omar Dykes “On the Jimmy Reed Highway”
Joan Osborne “Breakfast in Bed”
Joni Mitchell “Shine”
Jordin Sparks (American Idol’s Debut Album)
KT Tunstall “Drastic Fantastic”
Led Zeppelin “Mothership” (2CD & 1DVD)
Lifehouse “Who We Are”
Linkin Park “Minutes to Midnight” (also on DVD)
Maroon5 “It Won’t Be Soon Before Long”
Neil Young ~ “Live at Massey Hall” CD & DVD
Norah Jones ~ “Not Too Late”
Paul McCartney ~ ”Memory Almost Full”
Prince “Planet Earth”
Rush “Snakes & Arrows”
Wilco “Sky Blue Sky”

Box Sets:
Genesis 1976-1982 (6 CD & 6 DVD)
Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 (4 CDs)
Traveling Wilburys (Remastered 2 CD & 1 DVD)

DVD:
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built (American Masters documentary on PBS)
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 (Double Disc)
Dear Mr. Fantasy Featuring the Music of Jim Capaldi & Traffic (Tribute Concert)
Help! (Remastered Double Disc with bonus footage of the Beatles)
The McCartney Years (3 DVD set of live performances & music videos)
SXSW Live 2007 (the first ever DVD release from South By SouthWest)

Best Books:
Clapton autobiography

Best Reunion Concerts:
Led Zeppelin at London’s O2 in tribute to Atlantic Record’s Ahmet Ertegan and his charity for music education. Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood perform together at Crossroads, then announce a new tour for 2008. Spinal Tap reunites at Live Earth concert. The Police played at the Grammies and then hit the road.

New Gear:
Fender’s VG Stratocaster
Gibson’s Robot Guitar

So keep on rockin’ in the free world, like Neil Young said. 2008 promises some great things to come. Like these ‘08 New Releases:
Detours ~ Sheryl Crow
Working Man’s Cafe ~ Ray Davies (Feb. 19)
Maidstone 1970 ~ Fairport Convention (Feb. 19)
Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings ~ Counting Crows (March 25)
The Bedlam in Goliath ~ The Mars Volta
and Clapton debuts a new VH1 TV Classic Series.

Stephen Stills reportedly has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and will undergo surgery on his 63rd Birthday January 3rd.

This conversation with Graham Nash was on Larry King Live. There’s a CNN Video clip at:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2007/12/18/stills.cancer.cnn