Bernie Wilson, a member of The Sound of Philadelphia, recently passed away from medical complications that occurred at a hospital located in Voorhees, New Jersey. Wilson was a member of the Lewd Notes, which also included Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin, Lawrence Brown, and Lloyd Parks. The group signed with Philadelphia International, and embarked on the [...]
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Bernie Wilson, a member of The Sound of Philadelphia, recently passed away from medical complications that occurred at a hospital located in Voorhees, New Jersey. Wilson was a member of the Smutty Notes, which also included Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin, Lawrence Brown, and Lloyd Parks. The group signed with Philadelphia International, and embarked on the [...]
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With a new record scheduled for a March release, the punters at Queen’s Hall have turned out in the expectation of new material and Pierce doesn’t disappoint. Sitting in his customary position stage left at a right-look for to the crowd and in a pair of oversized sunglasses, he opens with a menacing animal of a song called ‘Hey Jane’, which has a mammoth riff at the heart of its near ten minute duration before heading off into a mesmeric one-chord groove. As statements of intent go, it is not too far down from parking tanks on the lawn.
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The Road to Rapture, Paved With Rock
Simplicity marries excess in Spiritualized, the long-running British border that performed at Terminal 5 on Monday night. Three or four chords, a handful of verses and a brazen-faced guitar line are all Jason Pierce, aka J. Spaceman, needs for songs that can
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Say It Ain't So, Joe
Bonamassa, a guitar prodigy who was slammin' Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan chords at age 7, was home at the Landmark. Raised in Utica, he was surrounded by friends and family in the theater after his many globetrotting gigs over the past 12 years
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Spiritualized majestic at TLA Most of the songs during the orchestra's 130-minute performance Friday night at the Theater of Living Arts built on a one- or two-chord guitar riff, but they became majestic, inspiring monuments. Pierce's roots are in psychedelic rock (going back to the |