Pat Daly, Author at Rock and Roll Globe

ALBUMS: New Flaming Lips Record Writes a Requiem for Stoner Suburbia

October 1, 2020October 2, 2020 Pat Daly 0 Comments 2020, American Head, Dave Fridmann, Flaming Lips, Steven Drozd, The Soft Bulletin, Warner Bros., Wayne Coyne

‘American Head’ grew up in the 60s and 70s, just like we did

Rock

40 Years of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Winterland

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018 Pat Daly 1 Comment 1978, 40th Anniversary, Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band

December 15th, 2018, marks the 40th anniversary of the greatest rock show ever.

Rock

Van Morrison’s Fifty-Year-Old War on the Music Business

April 30, 2018April 11, 2019 Pat Daly 4 Comments Astral Weeks, Bert Berns, Them, Van Morrison

It takes a special kind of hate to write 31 songs for the sole purpose of torching your record label. Van Morrison has always hated the record industry. His catalogue, from a long and storied career – which has included stints with Polydor, Virgin, Blue Note, EMI, RCA, Caroline, Parrot, and long runs with Warner Brothers and Mercury – is sprinkled with songs complaining about the music business – “Drumshambo