Tag Archive: Sam Peckinpah

UNHAPPY AS A SANDBOY – 1974 finds Neil Young ‘On The Beach.’

neilsambrook@btinternet.com June 5, 2019

‘ON THE BEACH’ is a defining album of the 70s and arguably the most lyrically potent made in the first half of that decade.

RANTS & REFLECTIONS

After The Goldrush, Buffalo Springfield, Carole King, Crosby Stills and Nash, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Harvest, Jackson Browne, John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, On The Beach, Richie Furay, Sam Peckinpah, Stephen Stills, Time Fades Away, Tonight's The Night, Van Morrison

EXCITABLE JOY – The genius that was WARREN ZEVON

neilsambrook@btinternet.com May 13, 2018

This is not the Los Angeles of ‘life in the fast lane’ decadence, the songwriting of Zevon closer to novelist James Ellroy than Joe Walsh…

RANTS & REFLECTIONS

Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills and Nash, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Reacher, Jackson Browne, James Ellroy, Lee Child, Neil Young, Raymond Chandler, REM, Sam Peckinpah, Warren Zevon