Tag: Richard Cone
Neil Sedaka with the San Diego Symphony at Embarcadero Marine Park
It’s hard to imagine that Neil Sedaka is not yet a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He’s a consummate singer, pianist and especially a composer. If I included the entire list of Sedaka’s hits, and the singers and bands who have recorded them, there would be no room for Charlotte Tenney’s […]
Local San Diego Musician Jim Allen Wears Three Band Hats
By Richard Cone With the advent of Facebook, MySpace and personal websites these days, anyone in a band can have a web presence where they can post sound samples, offer CD’s for sale and list tour dates. In the “old days,” when San Diego musician Jim Allen first started playing in a band, one […]
Netherfriends Does Nilsson” in concert at Tin Can Ale House
Netherfriends are a three piece experimental, psychedelic pop band, which originally began as a solo project for Shawn Rosenblatt, while attending Columbia College, where he currently is enrolled. Shawn recorded all the instruments himself and started being offered shows. He quickly realized that he needed other members to be able to perform the heavily layered […]
The Devil Makes Three Live Album “Stomp and Smash” CD Release
The Devil Makes Three, comprised of songwriter/ guitarist/vocalist Pete Bernhard, banjo player Cooper McBean and stand-up bassist Lucia Turino have released a new CD titled “Stomp and Smash” that is garnering a string of favorable reviews nationwide. NPR Radio said, “unplugged, yet intense, whiskey-drenched, ramshackle fury…” and WYNC Soundcheck said, “The Devil Makes Three […]
Mission Hills Guitarist and British Singer Perform in Five Local Appearances
Lovers of guitar duets, listen up! Through a collaboration done totally by computer file sharing between San Diego, and Rodmell, a little village in Sussex, England, Mission Hills finger style guitarist and arranger Don Strandberg, and writer/guitarist/singer John Dartnell released a CD titled “Dreams and Schemes” in April 2011. “Dreams and Schemes” has garnered considerable […]
Two Headliners for the Price of One
John Gorka and Eliza Gilkyson at AMSDConcerts by Richard Cone Once again, AMSDConcerts, who just had their 8th Anniversary and are fast closing in on 500 shows, presents two headliner acts in the same bill, singer/songwriter John Gorka, who Rolling Stone Magazine called “the preeminent male singer-songwriter of what has been dubbed the New Folk […]
Colin Hay is Still a Man at Work
by Richard Cone Although Colin Hay, the lead singer and songwriter (“Who Can It Be Now?” “From The Land Down Under”) for the 1980’s Australian band “Men at Work,” is billed on his own website as “The Man at Work from Men at Work,” he charmingly tells me that “People who come to see […]
Phil Ochs “There But For Fortune” Documentary Honors 60’s Icon
by Richard Cone In the halcyon days of the early 1960’s folk music explosion that was centered in Greenwich Village in New York City, Phil Ochs, a baby faced, handsome folk singer with a battered acoustic guitar took to the stage and sang songs of protest with themes ripped directly from the political headlines of […]
