This Chuck Miller article was originally published in Goldmine magazine in 2000. == It’s October 30, 1998, a brisk afternoon along the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame inducts its first class of trios and quartets and quintets of harmony. Among those who received honors for their golden throats and platinum hits…
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“That’s lower case ‘m’, lower case ‘o’, lower case ‘e’, period.”
The other day, one of my Facebook friends and former editors of the music magazine Goldmine, Wayne Youngblood, went on a screed about the use of two spaces after a period. He was editing his latest magazine, a stamp collecting guide called Topical Time, and posted this: Time to vent: Typographically speaking, two spaces before the start…
Read More“Muslim Man” – the Deen Squad combats stereotypes and bigotry
Jae Deen and Karter Zaher have a tough task ahead of them. The two Canadian college friends have created a rap group, the Deen Squad, with the hopes of bringing an Islamic twist to their hip-hop music. So far, they’ve had some success, plenty of media coverage and some nice magazine articles to their credit.…
Read MoreI see your Billy Joel and raise you a Blotto.
Colorado College is setting up a musicology conference in October 2016, with subjects and topics based on the music and career of Billy Joel. I’m not kidding. Click here and see if I’m kidding. Okay, now that you’ve seen that… here’s part of the symposium’s proposal. “In the spirit of Joel’s music, this public musicology…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Goodbye to my 78’s…
My friend John Gabriel – yes, the Time Warner Cable News traffic reporter and announcer, the man who has a complete collection of old WTRY and WPTR weekly survey playlists – recently acquired a jukebox. Not just any jukebox… the man owns a 1949 Seeburg M-100-A. the first jukebox to play 100 78 RPM selections…
Read MoreThe Yard Sale Conundrum: What would you do?
Mark is a longtime friend of mine. We met in college and worked together on the college radio station WHCL. We’ve stayed in touch with each other through graduation and our lives and careers. Facebook helps, too. Mark turned his love of music into a thriving business as a record dealer. He goes to several…
Read MoreFilthy Lucre, indeed: The Sex Pistols on credit cards
If there was ever a music group that defined anger and uprising and the very heart of punk rock music, it was certainly the Sex Pistols. Okay, does that refresh your memory? Good. The image of the Sex Pistols were of a band rebelling against anything and everything – class structure, the monarchy, all of…
Read MoreI know that song from the QuickBooks commercial!!
I realize that I’ve come to the age in my life where the songs I played on college radio are now appearing as jingles for commercial products. Yes, I’ve heard Modern English’s “I Melt With You” in a Burger King commercial, and Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me” has shown up in Chips Ahoy! commercials…
Read MoreBrother Jon Rivers and the other “Powerline”
A couple of days ago, I posted this picture of a snow-capped telephone line in the Adirondacks. I called the picture “Powerline,” for no other reason than it was descriptive of the scene. I should note that after I named the picture, I had a tiny flashback. To a man named Jon Rivers, and hearing…
Read MoreDid the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame get it right for 2015?
I stopped doing a “who should be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” listing years ago. Mostly because the artists I thought SHOULD be in the Rock Hall by now – the Moody Blues, the Guess Who, Styx, Boston, Cheap Trick, Kansas, the Electric Light Orchestra, New Order, Depeche Mode – kept…
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