UPDATED: 4 March 2019. Did 1930s bluesman Sleepy John Estes influence Tyrannosaurus Rex? Before the electric guitar-boogie pop of Marc Bolan’s T-Rex – the group who started Britain’s early 1970s glam-rock era – some might remember we had the hip underground folk-rock of Bolan’s T-Rex’s forerunner: Tyrannosaurus Rex. Tyrannosaurus Rex was an early hippy-style band whose most interesting…
UPDATED MAY 31, 2018. Mess around … with a red dress on … know what I’m talking about? Not one, but three (not so little) girls standing there with red dresses on You might have read in my last post about the words ‘blues’ (as in music), and…
USA’s first illustrated black paper, The Indianapolis Freeman Any idea when the word “blues” first appeared in print as a description for African-American music? It wasn’t until as late as 1910, would you believe, according to the American academics, Lyn Abbott and Doug Seroff, who discovered the term in The Indianapolis Freeman of 10 April…
Remastered: the untitled Led Zeppelin 1V album Blues and rock guitar great, Jimmy Page, as you might know, has in recent years been remastering the entire Led Zeppelin back catalogue. And he’s doing it with a twist. Jimmy’s been searching the vaults for alternative versions of all the band’s classics, to be released as a…
String theory is far too complex for the likes of me. Vibrating strings make up everything, the physicists, say, when it comes to different universes and distant higher dimensions. Please don’t ask me to explain this string theory graphic. However, one physicist from England’s Oxford University has just released a paper explaining a new kind of string…
