Argentina’s Espiritu was known for constant lineup changes, and habits of reuniting now and then, releasing some albums, and breaking up. The band formed in 1973 and that year released their first single, “Hoy, Sempre Hoy” b/w “Soy La Noche”. I have not heard this early single, but in 1975 comes their first full-length album, […] Continue reading →

Buy This CD! In 1969, around the release of Last Exit (which was mainly live leftovers, that is performance of songs found on none of their other albums, and collections of non-album singles, more of an idea thought of by Island Records than by the band), Traffic broke up. Steve Winwood teamed up with Eric […] Continue reading →

Comus was one of those British bands that were somewhere between folk rock and prog rock, but never doing versions of traditional folk material the way of Fairport Convention or Steeleye Span. They have a harder edge than any of those groups, and plenty of creative passages and tempo changes that would make them also […] Continue reading →

Buy This CD! We all know the history of Deep Purple. Many of the band members had played with other people, Ritchie Blackmore, for example, played for Screaming Lord Sutch, and was an early member of a band called The Trip (which was a British band at the time, but then moved to Italy and […] 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 →

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE – November 2005 The Catz in the Hatz, “”Take One” (Catz in the Hatz Records) Stardust-sprinkled jazz favorites played by genial weekend warriors for the Arthur Murray set. The marketing sound-bite for this SoCal-based quintet is “Jazz with an attitude” but with such foxtrot favorites as “I’ve Got You Under […] Continue reading →

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE – January 2006 by Eric Saeger Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction, “Rock Savage” (Abstract Sounds) Medium-speed sleaze-metal so full of its double-Y self it can’t help but succeed. AWOL from his writing/cartooning/psychiatric- ward-squatting pursuits, Zode brags on and on about booze, motorcycles and stealing your girlfriend in his best […] Continue reading →