Today, May 24, 1947, Cynthia Albritton aka Cynthia "Plaster Caster" was born. Cynthia began her career in 1968 by casting penises of rock musicians. She talks about getting the Rock & Roll groupie bug when she met the Rolling Stones in the 60’s. Cynthia remembers, "This exciting life, was the life for me. I was a shy, fledgling, virginal, goofy girl that wanted to get laid by cute British boys with long hair and tight pants. But, I wasn't experienced…
played on Springsteen’s first two albums, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. Lopez started out in a drum & bugle corps. as a bugel player until the 8th grade. He attended a show at the U.S.O. club in Asbury Park NJ. Walking up to the club, he heard some great music coming from inside. He turned to his friend and said, “there’s a good band in here tonight.” His friend told him…
Sirius XM host Keith Roth of Ozzy’s Boneyard & Hair Nation talks about his first musical memories and entering the rock scene. Keith has been with Sirius since 2002 and has been playing guitar in his band Frankenstein 3000 for over twenty years. He recently starred as Jack Ainsely in the award winning film “Let Me Down Hard,” which won both the Asbury Park Music In Film Festival and the Garden State Film Festival in 2016. Frankenstein 3000's new record…
In this 1973 interview, Rod Stewart chats about everything from his first love, football (soccer) to odd jobs including three weeks as a gravedigger before being discovered at the age of 18 in a London train station by Long John Baldry. Rod reveals, “I’ve never wanted to be a leader of a band. I’ve never wanted to be a dictator. I just want to be the singer in the group.” Inevitably, Stewart is asked about the extraordinary number of women…
New York Dolls perform Personality Crisis on The Midnight Special - 1973 (YouTube) Go to (page 60) and see the photo and read the story FASHIONS Making The Man - in ROCK SCENE Magazine. The New York Dolls are setting fashion trends in the big city. Way up in back is drummer Bill Murcia, next to him with the sunglasses is Sil Mizrahi, and leftto right in front are David Johansen, Johnny Thunder and Arthur Kane.
Sly and the Family Stone perform Stand on The Midnight Special on October 26, 1973. (YouTube) TURNING HIMSELF ON "so I don’t get stoned when I get on stage - it’s all natural to me.…if I make it big, really big, I’ll just be so crazed....When I pay money to see somebody, I want to see a show…My grandmother gave me the idea of dressing up…and being very outrageous." Read the full interview on (page 70) with writer Harriette Vidal exclusively in…
"Some People Like to Rock.... Some People Like to Roll." A candid moment from Marc Bolans' behind the scenes from their collaboration"Born to Boogie" film. (Credit: dutchbolanfan's YouTube) See full story on (page 9) in this months Rock Scene magazine.
Black Sabbath had just released Vol. 4, which featured hits “Snowblind”, “Changes”, and “Tomorrow’s Dream”. Even after having released four studio albums, the band still dealt with negative connotations surrounding their name. It was often assumed that because of the name; Black Sabbath, the band partook in black magic. “So the Rolling Stones got something to do with landslides,” Ozzy Osbourne wittily remarks on the subject of band names being taken literally. “A name is whatever you want to interpret it…
Marvin Lee Aday later to be called “Meat Loaf” was born on September 27, 1947 was born in Dallas Texas. The first bands he had seen in the 60’s were The Kingsman who had a hit song called “Louie Louie” and Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts was a band that did sexual pun material. Meat Loaf talks about the Rock Scene in Detroit and playing on The Detroit Rock & Roll Revival with Mc5, Dr. John Ted Nugent and…