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EDITOR’S NOTE

Goldmine and its contributors have packed a lot into this Winter 2024 issue. We’ve covered the gamut, from Keith Urban to Judas Priest, from Johnny Marr to The Faces. And how can we go an entire year without having a major Beatles feature? (Beatlemania turns 60 here in the U.S.!) There was so much to cover in just one 100-page issue that we’ve decided to move our 50th anniversary celebration cover feature to the Spring 2025 issue. (Honestly, we needed more time to track down and interview former Goldmine editors and dig through the archives for even more gems.) Plus, for this Winter 2024 issue, we created collector editions for Judas Priest’s Rocka Rolla 50th Anniversary release and Soul Asylum leader Dave Pirner (what a major ambassador for the vinyl…

2024 HIGHLIGHTS

Eked out already across a couple of excellent vinyl highlights discs, and partially familiar too from past BBC-borrowing compilations, a full 8-CD + Blu-ray recounting of The Faces’ U.K. radio and television adventures might make one initially think that would probably be too much of a muchness. After all, you’ve heard one version of “You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want to Discuss It),” do you really need six? Or one “Three Button Hand Me Down” — what do you do with four (plus a video reprise)? Ditto, as you plow through the contents of At the BBC: Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973 (Rhino). [Read our interview with Faces drummer Kenney Jones on the BBC release, page 64.] For a band that had more than their fair share of…

2024 HIGHLIGHTS

GEORGETOWN RECORDS

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Address: 1201 S. Vale St. Seattle, WA 98108 Shop Hours: Mon-Sat 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Phone: (206) 762-5638 Web Site: georgetownrecords.net STOCK 9 What can’t you buy here?! T-shirts, memorabilia, posters, magazines, incense, books, cleaning supplies, replacement sleeves, needles, storage supplies, turntables, electronics, speakers, cables, vinyl records, demo tapes, CDs, etc. And the record store is also directly attached to Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery. STAFF 10 Is it tough to get help, or are there helpful, knowledgeable, friendly workers on staff? Or is there just one horribly rude person who is infuriated that they have to stop their non-emergency phone conversation for 20 seconds so you can give them your money? (And yes, that did happen to me.) This store has an absolutely awesome friendly…

GEORGETOWN RECORDS

AMERICAN STANDARD: CHEAP TRICK by Ross Warner (Backbeat Books) Warner presents a lively retelling of the band’s rise, skillfully unraveling the various contradictions and mythologizing surrounding the group. It gets even more interesting after the surprise success of Cheap Trick at Budokan, when the band’s fortunes began to wax and wane, leading to the inevitable lawsuits that accompany every rock and roll success. It’s a book that reminds you why the band still matters. TALKIN’ GREENWICH VILLAGE by David Browne (Hachette Books) Most books about the Greenwich Village music scene focus on one particular era: the halcyon days of the 1960s, for example. The strength of Browne’s book is that he covers the grand sweep, kicking off in 1957 and carrying the story all the way through to 2004. From…

10 ALBUMS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

JOEY KRAMER OF AEROSMITH Since day one, Bronx, New York-born drummer Joey Kramer was the backbone of Aerosmith. While the howling Steven Tyler — who Kramer grew up with and remains close to — was often the focus, as was the effortlessly cool and uber-talented guitarist Joe Perry, one must never discount the exploits of Kramer. Kramer’s hard-hitting, soul-infused drumming provided an essential and funky backdrop for songs like “Walk This Way,” “Back in the Saddle” and “Love in an Elevator.” Moreover, in the live setting, Kramer brought unbridled energy and an edgy yet effervescent personality from behind the kit. Sadly, age and illness kept Kramer off the road during Aerosmith’s last few years of existence, leaving drum tech John Douglas to fill his thunder-filled boots. While Douglas did a…

10 ALBUMS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

MODERN MUSIC MUST-HAVES

BISCUIT ROUSE | Biscuit and Buddy (2024, Leopard Records / Delta Music Media) The veteran and highly acclaimed drummer, vocalist and recording artist James Rouse (known affectionately and professionally as Biscuit Rouse) comes to us in 2024 with his masterwork Buddy Miles tribute record, Biscuit and Buddy. Though Rouse has recorded, performed and toured with many of the industries most prized names (Lauryn Hill, Syleena Johnson, Vivian Green, Vernon Reid), he recognized the timing, stepping out on his own accord and honoring one of his virtual mentors and inspirations. The artist’s debut studio album contains 11 tracks that pay homage to this late, great funk/blues/rock drummer and vocalist — three of which are originally compositions — manifesting a collective body of work as a nod to Buddy Miles’ classic music,…

MODERN MUSIC MUST-HAVES

In my senior year of high school, I was all about New Wave and punk music. I loved The Clash, Joe King Carrasco and Talking Heads. And when the Heads came to Austin’s historic Armadillo World Headquarters in 1979, I was ecstatic. A band called Perfect Fools was supposed to open the show — at least that’s what it said on the ticket. But the afternoon of the show, I went into Inner Sanctum Records, and my friend Jack was playing a record that instantly blew me away. He said this was the band that would actually be opening for the Heads that night, not Perfect Fools. He and I just listened: “Planet Claire,” “52 Girls,” “Dance This Mess Around.” And wildest of all, “Rock Lobster.” We were transfixed. It…

Rocka Rolla WISDOM

Judas Priest’s 1974 debut, Rocka Rolla, could be viewed as one of the most underrated albums in hard-rock history. Maybe the album’s been overlooked by so many because Judas Priest have become known as the forefathers of the heavy metal genre, and Rocka Rolla is at its core a heavy blues-rock album. Or “progressive blues” — to borrow a subgenre term from the early 1970s. But the Hendrix-y guitar playing of K.K. Downing and the out worldly operatic vocals from Rob Halford gave the album a gleam that many bands of that ilk didn’t have at the time. Fifty years on, you’ll find Rocka Rolla to be a damn good album. Straight-forward rockers like “One for the Road,” “Cheater” and the title track would fall right in line with any…

Rocka Rolla WISDOM

THE RETURN OF THE U.S. BEATLES ALBUMS

On February 15, 1964, Meet The Beatles! became the group’s first No. 1 album in the U.S., topping Billboard’s albums chart. It kicked off a remarkable run of chart success that year as Beatlemania swept the country. For the rest of the year, there was at least one Beatles album in the Billboard Top 10 — sometimes two albums, and on occasion even three, and the story was much the same on the magazine’s Hot 100 singles chart (on April 4, the group’s singles held the top five places on that chart). Meet The Beatles! was followed by The Beatles’ Second Album, the A Hard Day’s Night soundtrack, Something New, The Beatles’ Story and Beatles ’65. When The Beatles’ catalog was issued on CD in the 1980s, those U.S. albums…

THE RETURN OF THE U.S. BEATLES ALBUMS

A discussion with Beatles ’64 producer Margaret Bodde and director David Tedeschi

Sixty years after The Beatles landed on U.S. shores for the first time in February 1964, their seismic impact on American culture remains unequalled. Beatles ’64, a new documentary, charts the first flush of Beatlemania in America. Drawing heavily from newly restored remarkable verite footage shot by renowned filmmakers Albert and David Maysles alongside newly restored footage discoveries and significantly improved audio, thanks to proprietary cutting-edge MAL de-mixing technology, the documentary offers an exciting bird’s-eye view when four lads from Liverpool — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr — took over America. Producer Margaret Bodde and director David Tedeschi take us behind the curtain. GOLDMINE: You both were familiar with The Beatles’ launch in America. What were the things that you learned while working on the project…

A discussion with Beatles ’64 producer Margaret Bodde and director David Tedeschi

LONG AFTER DARK

Upon their emergence on the music scene in the late ’70s, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers traversed a steady climb to superstardom. With hits “Breakdown,” “I Need to Know” and “Listen to Her Heart,” the band’s first two albums, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and You’re Gonna Get It!, set the stage for their seismic breakthrough with Damn the Torpedoes, the first of three albums produced by Jimmy Iovine. Out now is a new Long After Dark expanded 2-CD (or 2-LP) set celebrating the group’s fifth and underrated album. Often heralded as the dark horse and lesser of the three Iovineproduced albums, Long After Dark deserves better. Now newly restored with a bevy of additional tracks, many worthy of inclusion on the original album, we spoke with founding Heartbreakers members…

LONG AFTER DARK

KEITH URBAN Aims High

Keith Urban is a titan of country music, a rippin’ guitar player and a man with millions of social media followers on top of millions of albums sold. Things could get complicated with all he has going on, but when it comes time to make a record, Urban keeps it simple. “I just got to make the music that comes out,” he tells Goldmine. “It’s about getting into the flow state. I get in the studio, get in the flow, and capture it.” Urban’s latest record, High, shows he’s done it again. Featuring 12 songs akin to a high-energy nebula, High shows that being 13 albums and over 30 years in doesn’t equate to boredom. But it wasn’t easy, as Urban had an entirely different album recorded before High, which…

KEITH URBAN Aims High

Lucinda Williams BAGS THE BEATLES

With the exception of Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton, no female artist ranks higher in the Americana pantheon than Lucinda Williams. That’s hardly an exaggeration; given a career that stretches back some 45 years, the widespread acclaim accorded such seminal works as her eponymous third album (which yielded her oft-covered “Passionate Kisses”), Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Sweet Old World, Essence, This Sweet Old World and her latest, the tellingly titled Stories From a Rock n Roll Heart, based on her memoir of the same name. That’s not to mention three Grammy Awards and some 17 nominations, two Americana Music Awards, a proclamation by Time magazine citing her as “America’s best songwriter,” a listing by VH1 as one of the 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll and an…

Lucinda Williams
BAGS THE BEATLES

THE LARGER FACES

British drummer Kenney Jones has enjoyed quite a performing and recording career, going back to the 1960s. As a prominent member of three Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bands — The Small Faces (1965-69), The Faces (1969-75) and The Who (1978-88) — his unique style of playing has also graced recordings by The Rolling Stones, Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Art Garfunkel, John Lodge, Wings and others. Additionally, in 1991, he formed The Law with British singer Paul Rodgers. Born Kenneth Thomas Jones on September 16, 1948, in the Whitechapel section of London, he was destined for pop music success at a very early age. Jones was only 16 when The Small Faces became stars of the British Mod movement with their first hit, "Whatcha Gonna Do…

THE LARGER FACES

Johnny On The Spot

Johnny Marr is often referred to as “the man who would not solo,” which couldn’t be further from the truth. He has soloed, though not all the time, and definitely not obnoxiously. That is to say: Johnny Marr has not once stepped onstage with the intent to impress with shred-head chops. That’s not his vibe. “I’m very lucky that I not only have a knack for song but respect for it,” he tells Goldmine. “Even at an early age, I played a lot of covers and was pushed to think about the nature of the chords. I like harmony. I like what chords do. It all came together for me.” Indeed, it did. In 1982, at just 19, Marr formed The Smiths, an iconic Manchester, England, staple that effortlessly blended…

Johnny On The Spot

JOHNNY MARR + THE HEALERS

About a decade before guitar legend Johnny Marr dove into a career as a solo artist in earnest, he formed the band The Healers and released the band’s sole album, Boomslang, in 2003. In addition to Marr on guitar and lead vocals, The Healers included drummer Zak Starkey and bassist Alonza Bevan. They were augmented by percussionist Liz Bonney, synth player Lee Spencer and guitarist Adam Gray. This year sees the release of a Special Edition of the remastered Boomslang album that includes seven tracks that were not included on the original release. Among the tracks on the original release, “Down on the Corner” is the standout. It’s got acoustic guitar in the opening with a nice Marr lead vocal and understated electric guitar before the rest of the band…

JOHNNY MARR + THE HEALERS

Unless you live under a rock — or hate rock — you’ve probably feasted your ears on ’90s Soul Asylum cuts like “Runaway Train,” “Black Gold” and “Somebody to Shove” from the 1992 alt-rock powerhouse of an album, Grave Dancers Union. But to be fair — and as evidenced by Soul Asylum linchpin Dave Pirner’s decision to sometimes forgo playing those songs — there’s a lot more to the band than one record. From 1984 on into 2024, Soul Asylum had dropped 12 records. And in fall 2024, Slowly but Shirley became number 13. According to Pirner, Slowly but Shirley is the “best representation of Soul Asylum to this point.” Maybe that’s true, but for a band that’s been around for 45 years and entered the vortex of perpetual reminiscence,…

OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS

Engineer and producer Glyn Johns appears frequently in The Beatles documentary Get Back, all about the month of writing and jamming that became the band’s Let It Be album, a period of time that had climactically ended with the legendary rooftop concert. And if you work with The Beatles on a London rooftop on a cold January day in 1969, you might just find yourself a few years later working with another band of musical hippies an ocean away from London smack dab in the middle of America. The beginning goes something like this: Various free-spirited musicians in the early 1970s in Springfield, Missouri, started playing together in different configurations. They were mostly having fun, but they were also beginning to write songs and support each other in playing them.…

OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS

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