GOLDMINE - October 2020

In this issue

Giraldo’s Best Shots
Guitarist Neil Giraldo ruminates on his life and ongoing career.

Rock Music Insider
The son of Beatles attorney Nat Weiss shares his rock and roll memories.

Charming Chick
Chick Corea comes out with a fresh album of live piano work called Play..

SPIN YOUR FORMAT

There’s not been much good news out of the music industry this year, but reports that sales of cassettes in the U.K. through the first half of 2020 are more than double the same period last year certainly offers us pause for thought.

6 mins

THE KINGS

THE CANADIAN QUARTET The Kings celebrate the 40th anniversary of their hit “Switchin’ to Glide,” which reached No. 43 in the U.S. in 1980, a lively song beginning with the line, “Nothing matters but the weekend, from a Tuesday point of view.” Their DVD The Kings: Anatomy of a One-Hit Wonder includes Dick Clark introducing them on American Bandstand and saying, “These guys have worked so hard and hit it so well,” before the group energetically performed “Switchin’ to Glide.”

3 mins

NEIL GIRALDO'S BEST SHOT

GUITARIST NEIL GIRALDO TALKS ABOUT HIS ROCK AND ROLL CAREER AND NEW VENTURES GOING FORWARD.

8 mins

PURE PEANUTS

GILLIAN G. GAAR LISTENS TO THE LATEST PEANUTS RELEASES ON VINYL, AND PONDERS THE GENIUS OF COMPOSER VINCE GUARALDI.

5 mins

CHAT WITH A ROCK AND ROLL INSIDER

ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER SHAUN WEISS, SON OF BEATLES ATTORNEY NAT WEISS, SHARES HIS ROCK AND ROLL MEMORIES WITH AUTHOR DANIEL COSTON.

7 mins

Peter Green

Goldmine pulled the following feature on Peter Green from its archive, from an exclusive interview conducted by contributor Dave Thompson back in 1998.

10+ mins

Charlie Daniels

ELLIOT STEPHEN COHEN REMEMBERS CHARLIE DANIELS AND SHARES ONE OF HIS LAST INTERVIEWS WITH THE COUNTRY ROCK STAR

10+ mins

DAVID PATON AS HIS OWN PILOT

For a few short years during the mid-1970s, Scottish pop-rock-ers Pilot ruled the airwaves. The group’s first hit, Magic, made it to No. 5 on the U.S. charts in 1974. Although the follow-up single, January, only peaked at No. 87 in the U.S., it topped the charts in the U.K. and Australia in 1975. But success also brought management issues, which led to the band’s early demise. For Pilot’s main singer-songwriter and bassist David Paton it also brought a shift from being in front of the spotlight to moving behind the scenes as an in-demand session player after Pilot. Session work led Paton to joining the Alan Parsons Project, as well as working with such music heavyweights as Elton John. Forty-five years after the band’s halcyon days, a new box set that collects every Pilot album recorded celebrates the band’s glorious musical output.

8 mins

ALL THE RIGHT KEYS

CHICK COREA, WITH HIS LATEST ALBUM, PLAYS, CONVINCES AUTHOR MIKE GREENBLATT THAT HE’S AMERICA’S GREATEST LIVING PIANO PLAYER.

10+ mins

VERY GODLEY

DAVE THOMPSON INTERVIEWS SINGER-SONGWRITER KEVIN GODLEY (OF 10CC FAME) ABOUT HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM, MUSCLE MEMORY.

10 mins

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Goldmine is the serious resource for music collectors and anyone collecting old vinyl. It’s a treasure for everyone who loves classic rock, R&B, and blues music.