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Mind Smoke Records is an independent record label based in the Long Island area of New York. Rock & Roll is a State of Mind BLOG - Blog for Mind Smoke Records, a label from Lindenhurst.
Mind Smoke Records Blog
14h ago
It's Time For Some ROCK & ROLL NEWS
From The World Wide Web!
Paint It Orange: The Stones & A Movie That Almost Was
Mike Wilhelm: First Psychedelic Rock Guitarist
A Riot Of Their Own: The First Generation Of Female Rock Bands
Black Crowes: Happiness Bastards Album
Steve Harley: 1970s Cockney Rebel Who Took Risks & Wrote Hits
Radio, Radio: A Loose Report On The State Of The Format In 2024
A Short History of Folk Rock
Joni Mitchell’s Final Chapter Is Epic
Why The Beatles Biopic Needs Four Movies To Tell The Story Right
David Bowie ‘Ziggy Stardust’ Era: Rock &am ..read more
Mind Smoke Records Blog
14h ago
THE VAGRANTS
"The Vagrants, between 1964 and '68, rose from a bunch of New York high-schoolers rehearsing in a basement in the Forest Hills section of Queens to playing for thousands of kids in clubs. Chances are, though, if you weren't in the audience, you've never heard the band.
The Vagrants started when Peter Sabatino and his buddy Larry Weinstein saw The Beatles at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in August 1964 — literally next door to Sabatino's apartment building — and he and Weinstein decided that this was what they wanted to do. Weinstein's older brother Leslie was a good guitari ..read more
Mind Smoke Records Blog
1w ago
JERRY LEE LEWIS
The Casuals, Bobby One, Alan Marlo
State Theatre
Niagra Falls, NY
HOWLIN WOLF & HIS ORCHESTRA
Rosewood Club
Memphis, TN
BROOK BENTON
Ruth Brown, The Falcons,
The Pips, The Delloes
James Moody & His Orchestra with Eddie Jefferson (vocalist)
Memorial Auditorium
Chattanooga, TN
BOBBY DARIN
Community Hall
North End, IN
CLYDE MCPHATTER
BO DIDDLEY
The Crests, Chubby Checker
Paul Williams & His Orchestra
Memorial Auditorium
Chattanooga, TN
COUNT BASIE & HIS ORCHESTRA
Featuring JOE WILLIAMS
Blue Note Club
Wichita, KA
  ..read more
Mind Smoke Records Blog
1w ago
"A Pop person is like a vacuum that eats up everything, he's made up
from what he's seen. And that's why people are really becoming
plastic; they are just fed things and are formed and the people who
can give things back are considered very talented."
- Andy Warhol
Our Story Begins Here....
"During 1965, Andy Warhol accelerated and amplified his scope to match the culture's momentum. In October, he announced that he was leaving art and staged a happening: a 40-foot long silver balloon was launched into space from the Factory roof. Filled with helium, it was a forerun ..read more
Mind Smoke Records Blog
2w ago
It's Time For Some ROCK & ROLL NEWS
From The World Wide Web!
The Quirks of “A Hard Day’s Night”
Joe Jackson Revives Genius Of Lost Artist Max Champion
Joni Mitchell’s “Ladies of the Canyon” At 50: A Different Voice
Listening To Paul Williams
Johnny Thunders: The Raven Boy
Keith Richards: A Life in Clothes
Hollow Hand: If You Love Late-60s-Era Kinks
David Bowie: ‘In the ’70s, I Never Felt Like a Rock Star’
How Leonard Cohen & David Bowie Stared Down Their Mortality
The Hidden Cost Of Streaming Music
Rolling Stone Magazine @ 50: A Bittersweet Legac ..read more
Mind Smoke Records Blog
2w ago
REMEMBERING BILL HALEY & THE COMETS
Bill Haley was a country singer who loved to play Western Swing music. Bill Haley and his Comets had existed in an earlier, more country-flavored form as The Saddlemen but by the time they were ready to rock, they changed their name as Bill Haley & The Comets in 1952. Their frontman (Bill Haley) was already a veteran of many years of showbiz striving, paying the bills any and every way, including as a western swing showman.
As time went on, Haley and The Comets suddenly had an unlikely phenomenon in the delivery room of rock’n’roll. In terms of the ..read more
Mind Smoke Records Blog
2w ago
To me, Chester Burnett aka Howlin Wolf, will always be a touchstone to the exact moment I discovered just how important music played in my life. As time went on, I spent endless afternoons in school daydreaming about Wolf's music which ultimately led to how I ended up getting up onstage to play music in the first place.
Howlin Wolf's music served the same basic function as that old school book, The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr, and E.B. White's succinct instruction on how to work with the written word.
For me, Wolf's music ..read more
Mind Smoke Records Blog
2w ago
Located at 301 West 46th Street in New York City, The Scene, which opened its doors sometime in 1965, was indeed the most renowned rock club in the USA for a short span during the mid-sixties. This joint was run by a fella by the name of Steve Paul, who had begun his career in the rock world working as a publicist for the famed Peppermint Lounge club in NYC. Paul, who had a talent for spotting the next big thing in rock music, made his mark on the music scene by being a savvy judge of musical talent.
Paul was among the first clubs on the East Coast to book The Doo ..read more
Mind Smoke Records Blog
3w ago
1964
"The Beatles were one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands of all time. They also had one of the fiercest, most intensely loyal fandoms of all time. Beatles fans — mainly teenage girls — offered the band their unbridled devotion throughout the 1960' by gathering at concert venues in a way that the world had never witnessed before. Without their help, the Fab Four would have never become the legends they are today.
Being a Beatles fan was a wild ride that meant attending sold-out shows, and waiting at whichever airport the boys were flying into to ..read more
Mind Smoke Records Blog
1M ago
The Lost Guitar Solo From The Rolling Stones Song Brown Sugar
The Past Is Present: Mitch Ryder’s Band, Detroit!
George Harrison and “Handmade Films”
The Velvet Underground @ Max’s
The Prettiest Star: Angie Bowie
John Peel: His Life & Musical Legacy
Exploring Rock & Roll History In New York City
The Vagrants: A Hot '60s Band, For Exactly Four Years
Ork Records: Starting An Indie- Rock Revolution
The Man Who Got America High
The Women Who Helped Create 1950s Rock & Roll
A Short History Of Tower Records
Stealing Stiv Bators
Dirty Water: The Story of the S ..read more