Perhaps Douglas Fir is the greatest soul group to slip through the sixties unnoticed. Headed by the drummer Douglas A Snider the original formation started as a trio with this rumbling Hammond b 3 player called Tim Doyle and weeping Richie Moore on lead guitar. Known as The Sun Trio the group played much of […] Continue reading →

We all know that by 1969, Traffic broke up. The album Last Exit was released by the record company basically consisting of leftovers, and non-album singles. Steve Winwood, of course teaming up with Eric Clapton (ex-Cream, John Mayall and Yardbirds, later of Derek & the Dominoes, and of course a hugely successful solo career), Ric […] Continue reading →

Scotland the brave with tartan warriors like Beggars Opera and Cirkus had prolifically scaled awesome musical heights during the Prog revolution. Sadly one band from Newcastle is often forgotten in the seventies shuffle namely the three- piece Ginhouse (name from St Andrews pub). Ginhouse played a mighty set at the Newcastle Polytechnic Ellison Building in […] Continue reading →

The Beatles: LOVE A Religious Experience! Review by Skip Stone Buy Audio DVD at Amazon.com Buy CD at Amazon.com Are YOU ready for this psychedelic experience? Have you rolled up & smoked that fatty with the best weed you can find? Are you coming on to those shrooms? Have you begun to PEAK on that […] Continue reading →

Because Spain don’t be only sun, beach and beautiful girls I try to guide you for one of the most impressive monuments of the spanish culture: the Santiago’s Way; but not only exist monuments, as well it’s a very important part of spanish history. I live in a city call Astorga, placed in middle of […] Continue reading →

Random Stabbings & Artless Critique – August 2006 Eric W. Saeger Black Cobra, “Bestial” (At a Loss Records) A two-person operation in the manner of Dresden Dolls but concentrating on the doom metal approach of St. Vitus, sometimes pegged to Boris speed, ie a homestyle type of jam usually restricted to the garages of the […] Continue reading →

With so much attention being given to the “free city” community of Christiania in Copenhagen at the moment, I wanted to shed light on a fascinating alternative-living project near Hundested in North Denmark. Dyssekilde is a community of houses in an idyllic rural setting, built using alternative and environmentally-friendly methods. People have come from as […] Continue reading →

Review: “War of the Worlds” (Paramount Pictures) Starring Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Dakota Fanning.   Rated PG-13. By Eric W. Saeger Moviegoers expecting a goggle-eyed computer graphics spectacle from Steven Spielberg are going to be slightly disappointed by the newest film adaptation of H.G. Welles’s novel. The blame for this falls on whoever decided that […] Continue reading →

South Sea Island Fiji I’ve been wanting to visit Fiji ever since 1982 when my plane stopped there to refuel on my way to Auckland, New Zealand. I wished then I could hop off and check it out, but that wasn’t allowed then. Most ex-pats like me sooner or later need to do a visa […] Continue reading →

LOVE is a beautifully written novel about two hippies/dope freaks, Angela and Simon. It starts in Berkeley in 1968. Simon is an English kid just out to have a good time who has come to be in the center of hippydom and revolution. There’s a lot of great pages simply evoking the feel of the […] Continue reading →