Marshall Of Rock

Plans are in place to develop a movie inspired by the legendary two days in 1975 that Kiss spent bonding with the citizens of Cadillac, Michigan . read more...

Another legendary concert I was lucky enough to attend was the 1985 Day On The Green concert at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California. Day On The Green concerts had been happening for many years in the Bay Area, and this one was the hardest rocking yet. The concert morphed into the stop for the "Monsters of Rock" tour in subsequent years, but we haven't had a true Day On The Green festival concert in California for many a year now---too bad. read more...

Danzig/Accept/Intrinsic 6/8/89  - The Graduate - Santa Barbara, California. I went to this show on the UCSB campus at The Graduate in Isla Vista, California, and helped advertise for it on my "Hot Metal Soup" radio program on Live 95, KPGA. read more...

Today is the 28th Anniversary of the 1983 US Festival. The US Festivals (US pronounced like the pronoun, not as initials) were two early 1980s music and culture festivals sponsored by Steve Wozniak, formerly of Apple Computer. The first was held Labor Day weekend in September 1982 and the second was Memorial Day weekend in May 1983. The 1982 US Festival was the first major festival since Cal Jam II that was not a charity concert—it was intended to be celebration of evolving technologies; a marriage of music, computers, television and people. That continued in 1983, even though Wozniak had lost millions on the first US Festival. The festival also had large air-conditioned tents featuring the US Festival Technology Exposition— a dazzling display of then-cutting edge computers, software, and electronic music devices. Also making a debut were installations of "out-door rain" - perforated pvc nozzles that sprayed water to fight the fierce hundred degree heat. read more...