Robert Baird

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Roddy Frame
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Aug 15, 2014  |  2 comments
Whether or not they vote to be independent next month from the UK, Scotland has always been independent musically.
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Roger Waters in 5.1
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Apr 14, 2014  |  0 comments
On Saturday, April 12, John Atkinson and I fought our way through toll plazas, endless New Jersey traffic (is there any other kind?) and one really annoying traffic jam (but hey, it was only one!...)
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Roger Waters in 5.1
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Apr 14, 2014  |  7 comments
On Saturday, April 12, John Atkinson and I fought our way through toll plazas, endless New Jersey traffic (is there any other kind?) and one really annoying traffic jam (but hey, it was only one!)
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Rolling the Stones
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Mar 04, 2017  |  5 comments
Call me perverse, or perhaps I've just been around too many musicians for too long, but the part of Exhibitionism, The Rolling Stones traveling show that I liked best was the very opening display in which you walk into a facsimile of the apartment that the five band members once shared in London when they were starting out. You could almost smell the rotting garbage and unwashed socks and underwear.
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Roscoe's Return
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Aug 20, 2016  |  1 comments
Eric "Roscoe" Ambel has even owned a much beloved but now sadly shuttered bar in the East Village called Lakeside Lounge, from which he salvaged the name for his record label.
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Rudy in Birdland
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Aug 29, 2016  |  4 comments
Art Blakey’s A Night At Birdland, Vol. 1 remains a landmark of both bebop and the earliest live recordings of jazz in a club setting.
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Rush: Working Men
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Robert Baird  |  Aug 21, 2012  |  First Published: Sep 01, 2012  |  3 comments
"We tried to do some work between the legs of . . .

"Ummmm . . . that sounds weird."

Rock musicians—do they ever think about anything but sex?

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson chuckles. He explains that what he meant to say was that he, singer-bassist Geddy Lee, and the exalted, formerly mustachioed object of Planet Earth's most fervent drummer cult, Neil Peart, were trying to write songs during a break in a recent tour.

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Ry Cooder's Finest
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Oct 06, 2017  |  6 comments
The highlight of an incomparable career, reissued on LP by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab . . .
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Ry Cooder: The Boy and The Bubble
Music and Recording Features
Robert Baird  |  Mar 16, 2003  |  0 comments
"Where can you go in the world anymore where you can be in any kind of atmosphere other than the post-media, post-consumer world that we live in now—one that's available and that's musically rich? So it's very attractive in that way."
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Sail on, Sailor
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  May 13, 2016  |  1 comments
It was high concept yet wonderfully honky tonk.
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