Harrison Ford, The Character Actor

One of the negatives of growing old in Hollywood is diminished box-office draw. Any aging star will attest to diminishing returns in their latter years. Over time some fans just move on. Others feel that at a certain point an actor is just too old to continue portraying certain characters. On the positive side is …

New Music From Styx, Gone Gone Gone

A new Styx song! A brand new Styx album on the way!!! This is the biggest surprise of 2017, so far,  A new Styx album  is something that I hoped for and never thought that I would ever see. For a long time the band seemed stuck in the cycle of releasing live album after …

Song Spotlight: Games Of Chance And Circumstance, By Kerry Livgren’s AD

AD was Kerry Livgren's post Kansas melodic progressive rock band. The band consisted of vocalists Warren Ham and Michael Gleason, former Kansas bassist Dave Hope, Livgren on guitar and Dennis Holt on drums. Livgren, Ham and Gleason shared the duties on keyboards. Like many prog bands in the 1980's AD featured a streamlined and more …

Song Spotlight: Alleluia By Michael Sweet

Here is a song tailor-made for Easter Sunday, Alleluia by Micheal Sweet. The song appears on his 2006 solo album entitled Him. The album consists of modern day rock and roll arrangements of classic church hymns. Michael Sweet has taken these traditional hymns and put his own guitar driven spin on them to great effect. …

Stunning Star Wars Art

I was recently online and came across these absolutely amazing pieces of artwork illustrating the Star Wars prequels.  I had to share these pieces because they are stunning. I know there are a lot of mixed feeling about these films, but you have to admit that these illustrations are wonderful.   The prequels do have …

An Overlooked Gem By Queen

The Queen song Let Me In Your Heart Again arrived with much fanfare and seemed to fade away far to quickly. I believe that this overlooked gem deserves much more attention. Released in late 2014 on the Queen compilation album Queen Forever. The double album is a mix of Queen hits as well as deep …

The Afterglow Of Genesis

Here it is Spring of 2017 and the afterglow of the great band Genesis remains. The band recorded their last album in 1997 and they completed their last tour in 2007. Over the last several years, apart from public appearances for awards ceremonies or the filming of a documentary, the members of Genesis have been …