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Gary Pig Gold

Gary Pig Gold

Ever since first encountering the RanDells' immortal 'Martian Hop' as a child in his Aunt Jenny's cottage, Gary has lead a life absolutely filled with writing, writing about, making, manufacturing, distributing, performing, championing-in-general and — oh yeah! — listening to music of all sorts, shapes, stripes and formats. These merry melodic adventures have carried him far from his home and native Toronto to, amongst many other people, places and things, the nascent London pub/punk rock scene, an historic record deal with the once Soviet state's Melodiya label, a decade as founder-publisher of Canada's first-ever music fanzine, a Maximum Rhythm and Bluegrass song in the second Brady Bunch movie (almost) and a happy home today running a virtual record company from high atop the Heights of Jersey City, USA. Gary could've made it to Australia as Jan and Dean's bass player once as well, but forgot his passport somewhere along the way. Nevertheless, with his infamous socio-musical "Pigshit" column entering its fifth decade of faithful service, and many a note-worthy mission still to be done and sung, Gary continues to be, in the All Music Guide's well-chosen words, "rock music's all-time hardest-working man... with all apologies to James Brown."

GARY PIG GOLD BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Music Hound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (both Original and Revised editions)
edited by Gary Graff and Daniel Durchholz
(Visible Ink/Omnibus, 1996, 1999)

Music Hound Country: The Essential Album Guide
edited by Brian Mansfield and Gary Graff
(Visible Ink/Omnibus, 1997)

Music Hound R & B: The Essential Album Guide
edited by Gary Graff, Josh Freedom du Lac and Jim McFarlin
(Visible Ink/Omnibus, 1998)

Music Hound Folk: The Essential Album Guide
edited by Neal Walters and Brian Mansfield
(Visible Ink/Omnibus, 1998)

Music Hound Lounge:  The Essential Album Guide to Martini Music and Easy Listening
edited by Steve Knopper
(Visible Ink/Omnibus, 1998)

On A Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock
by Dave Bidini
(McClelland & Stewart, 1998)

Music Hound Swing: The Essential Album Guide
edited by Steve Knopper
(Visible Ink/Omnibus, 1999)

Music Hound World: The Essential Album Guide
edited by Adam McGovern
(Visible Ink/Omnibus, 2000)

Encounters with Bob Dylan: If You See Him, Say Hello
by Tracy Johnson
(Humble Press, 2000)

Paul McCartney: I Saw Him Standing There
by Jorie B. Gracen
(Billboard Books, 2000)

Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears
edited by Kim Cooper and David Smay
(Feral House, 2001)

The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds:  The Greatest Album of the Twentieth Century
by Kingsley Abbott
(Helter Skelter, 2001)

Lost In The Grooves
edited by Kim Cooper and David Smay
(Routledge, 2005)

T.V. A-Go-Go: Rock on T.V. from American Bandstand to American Idol"
by Jake Austen
(Chicago Review Press, 2005)

The Little Black Book of Music
edited by Sean Egan
(Cassell Illustrated, 2007)

The Top 100 Canadian Albums
by Bob Mersereau
(Goose Lane Editions, 2007)

Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond, 1977-1981
by Liz Worth, edited by Gary Pig Gold
(Bongo Beat Books/ECW Press, 2009, 2011)

The Mammoth Book of Bob Dylan
edited by Sean Egan
(Constable & Robinson/Running Press, 2011)

Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk
by Sam Sutherland
(ECW Press, 2012)

The Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia Volumes 1 and 2
by Jaimie Vernon
(Bullseye Canada, 2012)

A Lennon Pastiche: Expressions From Fans of John Lennon
edited by Judith Furedi
(PANGEA Publishing, 2013)

50 Licks: Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones
by Pete Fornatale
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013)

A Tribute To The Forgotten Rebels
edited by Brad Pine
(ePub Bud, 2013)

The Mammoth Book of the Rolling Stones
edited by Sean Egan
(Constable & Robinson/Running Press, 2013)

It Was Fifty Years Ago Today: The Beatles Invade America and Hollywood
by Harvey Kubernik
(Otherworld Cottage Industries, 2014)

Turn Up The Radio! Rock, Pop, and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972
by Harvey Kubernik
(Santa Monica Press, 2014)

Gods Of The Hammer: The Teenage Head Story
by Geoff Pevere
(Coach House Books, 2014)

Neil Young: Heart of Gold
by Harvey Kubernik
(Backbeat Books, 2015)

Heavy Metalloid Music: The Story of Simply Saucer
by Jesse Locke
(Eternal Cavalier Press, 2016)

1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love
by Harvey Kubernik
(Sterling Publishing, 2017)

Inside Cave Hollywood: Music InnerViews and InterViews Collection, Vol. 1 
by Harvey Kubernik
(Cave Hollywood, 2017)

Dreamer: The Making of Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue
by Ken Sharp
(Jetfighter, 2017)

The Doors: Summer’s Gone 
by Harvey Kubernik
(Otherworld Cottage Industries, 2018)

The Story Of The Band: From Big Pink to The Last Waltz 
by Harvey Kubernik
(Sterling Publishing, 2018)

Docs That Rock, Music That Matters
by Harvey Kubernik
(Otherworld Cottage Industries, 2020)

The Magic's In The Music: A Celebration of The Lovin' Spoonful, Volume 2
by Simon Wordsworth and Karl Baker
(CreateSpace, 2020)

Domenic Troiano: His Life And Music
by Mark Doble and Frank Troiano
(FriesenPress, 2021)

Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child

by Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik
(Sterling Publishing, 2021)

MAGAZINES, FANZINES, PERIODICALS, RADIO BROADCASTS, WEBZINES and BLOGS which GARY PIG GOLD has regularly contributed to include:

Flipside, FFanzeen, In Music We Trust, The Next Big Thing, Roctober, Cosmik Debris, Big O, Teenage News, Outer Shell, Fufkin, Mole, Inside Joke, Little Rhino Gazette, Buzz, Bad Meat Quarterly, Ear Candy, Jaguaro, Orange Entropy, OnLine TV, The Blacklisted Journalist, What Wave, Indie Journal, Pull My Wire, Choice Words, Twangzine, Outer Shell, Purr Magazine, Blastitude, Great White Noise, Buhdge, Dead Flowers, Jumping Fences, Miles Of Music, Sound Views, Cups, Zoom, Rocks Off, The Music Korner, The Nail, Torpedo Pop, Original Cool, Twist and Shake, Rock Beat International, Poplust, New York Waste, Pallid Pilgrim, Pop Sunday, Angst and Daisies, Popin' Up, Fishwrap, Last Hurrah, Sugar Shock, Pop Culture Club, Sonic Garden, Otono Cheyenne, Open Sky, Blastitude, Skuawk!, Savvy Insider, Morty's Cabin, Go Metric, Art Fein's Poker Party, Lost In The Grooves, Spectropop, Narchive, Bubblegum University, New York Power Pop Page, Lullaby Pit, Super Seventies RockSite, BallBusterHardMusic, Dagger, "H" Magazine, Medleyville, Rock Groups by Tom Brady, The Rock And Roll Report, Mongrel Zine, GEMM Magazine, Celebrity Café, GWNtertainment, PopKrazy, Lars Wenker blog, Roctober Reviews, Rock And Roll Tribe, Segarini's Don't Believe A Word I Say, PopDiggers, Music Aficionado, Skitzoid Magazine, Rock N Roll Freaks, Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do), Vulcher, The Hamilton Musicians' Guild "Libretto", The Club Bohemia Newsletter, Forgotten Hits, Rock n Roll Central Newsletter, plus THE PIG PAPER, which Gary has written, edited and published since 1975.

 

GARY PIG GOLD DISCOGRAPHY:

Has worked as a musician, vocalist, writer, producer, annotator, advisor and/or arranger on a myriad of releases worldwide since 1978 involving Simply Saucer, Endless Summer, Shane Faubert, Pat Boone, The Loved Ones, The Know Goods, Gene Pitney, The Dave Rave Conspiracy, The Wretches, Lauren Agnelli, Klaatu, The Rooks, Coyote Shivers, Alex Chilton, Don Covay, The Ghost Rockets, The Grip Weeds, Adam Marsland, The Masticators, Gene Clark, Jack Pedler, Martin and the E-Chords, The Bay City Rollers, Robin Stanley, Breathers, Jeremy Morris, The Cheepskates, The Next Big Thing, Jandek, The Dixie Bee-Liners, Erich Overhultz, Little Sisters, John Huelbig, Chris Butler, Neil Young's "Living With War Today", R. Stevie Moore, Casper and the Cookies, The Lemon Pipers, The Who, Rick Nelson, plus many releases on TO M' LOU MUSIC, the label Gary has helped operate since 1998.

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Keith Moon, The Who: Keith Moon: Like A Rat Up A Pipe

Profile by Gary Pig Gold, The Pig Paper, December 1975

IF PETE Townshend is the mind of The Who, Entwistle the soul, and Roger the heart, then drummer Keith Moon is most definitely the gut. ...

The Ramones: A Night At The Ramones

Report and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, The Pig Paper, August 1977

IF YOU weren't square, you weren't there, or something. In other words, the gasping legions of Canadian punkdom filled the aptly-named New Yorker Theatre in ...

The Beach Boys: The Beach Boys Love You (Brother/Reprise KMS-2258)

Review by Gary Pig Gold, The Pig Paper, August 1977

WHY DOES EVERY CANADIAN POP PUBLICATION IGNORE THE BEACH BOYS? WHY IS THEIR NEW SINGLE, 'ROLLER SKATING CHILD', DYING ON THE RACKS? WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ...

The Saints

Profile and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, The Pig Paper, August 1977

DID YOU know that there's a punk band in Australia? Well, there are punk bands in Toronto, so nothing should surprise you. ...

The Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson: Dennis Wilson: Beached Boy – A True Story

Report and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, The Pig Paper, October 1977

IT WAS Monday, August 29, 1977, it was hot, and it was about to pour rain. But as always, it was a sunny Saturday afternoon ...

Talking Heads: Love Goes To Building On Fire

Report and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, The Pig Paper, October 1977

Talking Heads, New Yorker Theatre, Toronto, Midnight 16 Sept '77 ...

The Hollies' Terry Sylvester

Report and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, The Pig Paper, December 1977

EVEN THE most punktured newavists will confess, "The Hollies – Yeah, I heard of them". ...

The Viletones

Interview by Gary Pig Gold, The Pig Paper, April 1978

GARY AND JOHNNY PIG IN A PIGSCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH NAZI DOG AND FREDDY POMPEII ...

John Lydon, The Sex Pistols: Johnny Rotten in Toronto

Interview by Gary Pig Gold, The Pig Paper, August 1978

Johnny Says Never Mind The Bollocks ...

Rank and File: Rank & File: Not a Common Band

Profile by Gary Pig Gold, The Pig Paper, 1983

"THEY SOUND like a cross between Buck Owens and the Ramones!" "Watching Chip Kinman on stage is just like watching Gary Busey in The Buddy ...

Gary Pig's All-Time Top Ten Car Tunes

Guide by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, July 1998

Summer having arrived yet again, it's now as good a time as any to compile:GARY PIG'S ALL-TIME TOP TEN CAR TUNES ...

Gary Pig Gold's All-Time Top Ten Psychedelic Records (circa 1966)

Guide by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, May 1999

WITH EVERY waking hour bringing yet another ill-advised Revival of sorts to our virtual doorsteps – today Slinkies, tomorrow Saturday Night Fever – I thought ...

Brian Wilson: And Your Dream Comes True

Live Review by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, July 1999

Brian Wilson Live at the Beacon Theater, New York City, June 18, 1999 ...

Brave Combo, Tiny Tim: Tiny Tim with Brave Combo: Girl (Rounder Records)

Review by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, August 1999

ANYONE NOT already familiar with the trials and tribulations, musical and otherwise, that was Mr. Tim should read no further. ...

Johnny Dowd: Either One Hell Of A Storyteller, Or Someone Who Should Be Locked Up

Comment by Gary Pig Gold, Indie Journal, September 1999

IT WAS BACK in the fall of 1996 that a strange little disc called WRONG SIDE OF MEMPHIS first crept into my life. ...

Johnny Dowd: Pictures From Life's Other Side (Koch Entertainment)

Review by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, October 1999

I SURE HAD A feeling something was up when a strange little disc called WRONG SIDE OF MEMPHIS, written and solely performed by a forty-nine-year-old ...

The Shaggs' Own Thing

Retrospective by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, November 1999

ON THE AFTERNOON of March 9, 1969, three guitar-and-drum-beating sisters from tiny Fremont, New Hampshire entered a tiny recording studio and emerged, just a few ...

Elvis Presley 1999

Comment by Gary Pig Gold, purrmag.com, Spring 1999

IT WAS ELVIS' BIRTHDAY a few weeks ago. While this fact usually only piques the interest of a few misguided Teddy Boys overseas at this ...

Tiny Tim: Rock (Regular/Festival Records)

Review by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, April 2000

I'VE OFTEN BEEN criticized for being a bit too hard on those musicians who choose to toil in the, shall we say, h.metal idiom. ...

The Sex Pistols: 10 Reasons Why the Sex Pistols Didn't (or Couldn't) Save Rock 'n' Roll: In honor of Julien Temple's The Filth And The Fury

Retrospective by Gary Pig Gold, Cosmik Debris, June 2000

1. MALCOLM McLAREN Never before in the long and illustrious annals of popular music history has a man been handed so much raw talent atop a ...

The Beach Boys: Middle-Aged Symphonies Towards God: The Beach Boys’ Brother Years

Overview by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, October 2000

YES INDEED, it goes without saying that Brian Wilson and his familial band full of brothers, cousins and friends have enjoyed a career quite unlike ...

Jimi Hendrix: Eight Little-Known Facts About Jimi Hendrix

Comment by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, November 2000

THE LINES, MUSICAL and otherwise, between Fact and (Science) Fiction tend to blur quite a lot whenever one dares speak of (a) Our Heroes, and/or ...

The Guess Who, Michel Pagliaro, Teenage Head: Ten Canadian Records You Shouldn’t Live Without

Guide by Gary Pig Gold, Cosmik Debris, April 2001

CULTURALLY, CANADA is without a doubt one of the most diverse nations on the planet, and with its record stores awash since the 1950's in ...

Patrick Sky: Songs That Made America Famous (Adelphi/GENES Records, Inc.)

Review by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, June 2001

IN 1965, YET another Greenwich Village folkie signed to Vanguard Records and released an album full of pleasing if inconsequential singalongs, more or less in ...

Perry Como: To Catch A Falling Star

Retrospective by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, June 2001

WIT DULY SHARPENED and tongue even firmer within cheek than usual, I treated the Sunday New York Times news of Perry Como's death as little ...

Bobby Fuller Four, The : Bobby Fuller: Shakedown! The Texas Tapes Revisited/The Bobby Fuller Four: Never To Be Forgotten: The Mustang Years

Review by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, July 2001

HARD TO BELIEVE it's been thirty-two years now since the self-proclaimed "Rock 'n' Roll King of the Southwest," who practically single-handedly bridged the (southern-fried) Fifties ...

Gary Pig Gold's Top Ten All Time Power Pop People (in Chronological Order)

Guide by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, July 2001

CERTAINLY WE COULD all be arguing blue-faced until that mythical Next Big Thing finally arrives over just what exactly IS "Pop," Powerful or otherwise. ...

The Dead Boys, The Germs: The Germs: Germicide/The Dead Boys: All This And More/Various: What? Stuff (Bomp! Records)

Review by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, July 2001

OK CLASS, READY? It's time to remember exactly WHAT (real) Punk Rock is (was). ...

Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones: Tom Jones: Live at Caesars Palace/Engelbert Humperdinck: Live at the Riviera, Las Vegas

Review by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, August 2001

CAUTION: EVEN THE most self-respecting of record stores now house a section way in the back, between the Soundtrack and Male Vocalist departments, called "Lounge." ...

The Kinks: Take Me Back to Those Black Hills That I Ain't Never Seen: The Kinks Invent Alternative Kountry

Retrospective and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, September 2001

"MUSWELL HILLBILLIES isn’t just a better country-rock album than anything by Wilco or Son Volt; It’s a better country-rock album than anything by the Byrds." ...

The Beach Boys: Endless Winter

Comment by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, December 2001

MAYBE IT'S THE weather, maybe it's CNN overload ...maybe it's just "the time of man," as it were, but I've been stuck to the web ...

Eric "Roscoe" Ambel: Eight Questions For Eric

Interview by Gary Pig Gold, Jumping Fences, 2002

THOUGH ERIC may prefer to refer to himself as simply "guitarist / record producer / songwriter / bar owner / American," his musical resume is ...

Pat Boone: Should Pat Boone be Inducted Into the R'n'R Hall of Fame?

Comment by Gary Pig Gold, Cosmik Debris, April 2002

SEEMS A simple, even innocent enough little inquiry, doesn't it? But I swear, seldom in all my quarter-century-plus of Piggery has one topic – one ...

The Ramones: Joey Ramone: Don't Worry About Me

Review by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, May 2002

Don't Worry Joey: the Lead Ramone's Parting Shots ...

Pat Boone: My Breakfast with Boone

Memoir by Gary Pig Gold, Cosmik Debris, June 2002

AS BIZARRE as even I still consider this lil' factoid to be, Yours Truly honestly did spend the majority of the Reagan administration touring Canada's ...

John Entwistle: Too Late The Hero: John Entwistle's Rigor Mortis Sets In

Obituary by Gary Pig Gold, earcandymag.com, June 2002

"WHAT I FEEL inside I can't explain. That John Entwistle should die in his late fifties is totally unthinkable. He was the indestructible one. He ...

The Ramones: Dee Dee Ramone

Obituary by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, July 2002

WITH THE DEATH of yet another Ramone, perhaps little really needs to be added at this point on how Dee Dee and his honorary brethren ...

The Rolling Stones: 10 Reasons Why the Rolling Stones Were the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band

Comment by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, November 2002

I. BRIAN JONES' HAIR ...

Pat Boone: The Literary Boone

Essay by Gary Pig Gold, Cosmik Debris, November 2002

[What follows is the concluding portion of our Pat Boone trifecta, part one being the infamous RnR Hall Of Fame Poll, which somehow led straight ...

The Lovin' Spoonful, Zal Yanovsky: Alive And Well In Argentina At Last: The Mirth, The Music, The Magic Of Zalman Yanovsky

Memoir by Gary Pig Gold, BigO, December 2002

I KNOW AT LEAST one of his fellow supposedly-lovin’ Spoonfuls resents the situation to this day, but whenever Zal Yanovsky appeared on stage alongside John ...

The Bee Gees: Pronounced "Morris", By The Way: The Rare, The Precious, The Death of a Bee Gee

Obituary by Gary Pig Gold, earcandymag.com, February 2003

JOHN ENTWISTLE. George Harrison. So how come it's the utterly coolest-by-far members of some of our all-time favorite bands who seem to be departing far, ...

Joe Strummer: Gary Pig Gold Got His Kicks With Joe Strummer

Memoir by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, March 2003

WHILE THE CLASH were hardly the only band that ever mattered to ME, I personally sure owe a tip-o-the ol' snout to the one, the ...

Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding: He Don't Live Today (Sorry): My Noel Redding Experience

Memoir by Gary Pig Gold, Rock's Backpages, May 2003

LET ME TELL YOU: The very first "real" concert I was ever allowed to attend as a wee Canadian tyke just so happened to be ...

Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Volume 4: Bob Dylan, Live, 1966

Review by Gary Pig Gold, Cosmik Debris, September 2003

IT SEEMS EVERY time Our Boy Bob scores big with a contemporary piece of new work, he feels secure enough to bless us with another ...

Johnny Cash: The Mantra In Black: Ten Reasons Why Johnny Cash Always Matters

Comment by Gary Pig Gold, earcandymag.com, October 2003

1. LUTHER PLAYED THE BOOGIE Without a red hot and blue band to back it all the way up, even a Man in Black's powers ...

The Deviants: Mick Farren & The Deviants: On Your Knees, Earthlings!!! (Total Energy)

Review by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, November 2003

MICK FARREN is one of the greatest madcaps Britain has yet to produce, I hereby loudly exclaim, and On Your Knees gathers together yet another ...

Roy Orbison: The Complete Sun Sessions (Varese Sarabande)

Review by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, January 2004

FOR THOSE WHO may be only marginally aware of The Big O's 1950's recordings (ie: via Creedence's credible cover of 'Ooby Dooby' 'way back when), ...

The Beatles: Gary Pig Gold Presents A Fab Forty

Guide by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, February 2004

HAS IT REALLY been four decades already since television's greatest-ever talent scout took a chance on a brash young musical novelty act from far-off Britain? ...

The Stooges: Iggy & The Stooges: Wild Love (Bomp!)

Review by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, April 2004

BOMP RECORDS' exquisitely lo-lo-fi Iguana Chronicles proudly soldiers forward with this hour's-plus of rehearsal tapes from the Stooges' glory daze pre- (and possibly even post-) ...

This Is Rebel Music: The Harvey Kubernik InnerView: Part One

Interview by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, September 2004

"If there is a secret history of LA's music scene – the real dirt, the telling minutiae, the diseased spirit of the place – then ...

This Is Rebel Music: The Harvey Kubernik InnerView: Part Two

Interview by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, October 2004

"THIS EXTRAORDINARY ASSEMBLAGE of interviews by journalist and record producer Harvey Kubernik is, as Brian Wilson's blurb on the back cover says, "inside stuff." It's ...

The Beatles, Bob Dylan: Al Aronowitz: The Man Who Invented the '60s

Profile and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, Cosmik Debris, October 2004

Gary "Pig" Gold meets the Man Who Invented the Sixties. ...

Who Put The Bomp? Why, Greg Shaw, Of Course!

Obituary by Gary Pig Gold, torpedopop.com, October 2004

ACCOLADES AND AWARDS are being tossed around far too indiscriminately these days, wouldn’t you agree? Especially within the, uh, Wonderful World of Entertainment. I mean, ...

The Rolling Stones: Skuawk! DVD Pick: The Rolling Stones - Rock and Roll Circus

Film/DVD/TV Review by Gary Pig Gold, skuawk.com, 11 February 2005

I THINK WE'RE more than all in agreement here that something very, very special took place during the middle 1960's; a magical, monumental something in ...

The Beach Boys: An Interview With Dominic Priore: Good Things Come To Those Who SmiLE, part 1

Interview by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, August 2005

Gary Pig Gold climbs into the Virtual Sandbox ...

Murray the K: Great Unsung Heroes Of Rock'n'Roll Radio

Overview by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, August 2005

Do you remember Murray the KAlan Freed and high energy?Do you remember rock'n'roll radio?Do you remember rock'n'roll radio?(The Ramones) ...

The Sex Pistols: Ten Reasons Why The Sex Pistols Didn't (or Couldn't) Save Rock And Roll

Comment by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, August 2005

In honor of Julien Temple's great new film The Filth And The Fury Gary Pig Gold humbly submits to both punks and non-punks, old and ...

The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson: An Interview With Dominic Priore part II: Good Things Come To Those Who SMiLE

Interview by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, September 2005

Gary Pig Gold climbs into the Virtual Sandbox ...

Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Gary Pig Gold meets N.Y. Driven Women # 12 & 35

Report by Gary Pig Gold, earcandymag.com, September 2005

BOB DYLAN'S EX-WIFE sits on the bleachers in a smoky little Hoboken nightclub watching her latest son-in-law belting out his latest demo tape to an ...

Buddy Holly: Those Should've Been The Days: Had Buddy Holly Not Taken That One Last Ride, That Is…

Essay by Gary Pig Gold, earcandymag.com, 3 February 2006

Gary Pig Gold channels The Cricket That Got AwayYESSIR, THAT LAST tour was sure a sumbitch, wasn't it? "Winter Dance Party" my lone starred ass! ...

Too Cool For Words! Gary Pig Gold's All-Time Favorite Rock 'N' Roll Instrumentals

Guide by Gary Pig Gold, earcandymag.com, March 2007

DRUMS AND wires often DO speak louder than words, and in that age-old teen spirit I hereby present a wholly chronological, but admittedly entirely objective ...

Metal Machine Musings: Gary Pig Gold's All-Time Top Ten Heavy Primal Hitters

Overview by Gary Pig Gold, ballbustermusic.com, April 2007

NOW BEFORE ya all call out the KISS Army or somethin' on me, let's just insist that there's one terrifically fine line indeed between, say, ...

The Doors: When You're Strange: A film about the Doors…Finally!

Film/DVD/TV Review by Gary Pig Gold, Rock and Roll Report, 16 July 2010

THE SUMMER OF 1970 was certainly a strange one in, for, and around what we may now quaintly call the pop/rock scene: Paul had just ...

The Bee Gees: In the Bee Gees' Time – A New Documentary on THAT Band

Film/DVD/TV Review by Gary Pig Gold, Rock's Backpages, 7 January 2011

2010 MARKED the 50th (!!) anniversary of the Bee Gees' career as fully professional all-singing, all-playing musicians, songwriters, and performers. ...

GG Allin: Pigshit: GPG on GG

Film/DVD/TV Review by Gary Pig Gold, Rock and Roll Report, 21 January 2011

A FULL DISCLOSURE right up front, one and all: Way back in the 1980 hey!day of my fanzine, The Pig Paper, a certain Kevin Michael ...

Sam Cooke: Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 (ABKCO Records)

Review by Gary Pig Gold, Rock's Backpages, February 2011

MOST EVERY single time the 20th century's greatest singer-songwriters find themselves getting lionized or even litanized, it seems one towering figure is strangely, sorrowfully AWOL. ...

The Hollies: They Ain't Heavy…

Retrospective by Gary Pig Gold, Rock's Backpages, 18 November 2011

NEVER AS NAUGHTY as the Rolling Stones, nor as pin-up perfect as Herman's Hermits; seldom as musically adventurous as the Yardbirds, nitty-gritty as the Animals, ...

Flat Duo Jets: Dexter Romweber's Freedom of Night

Retrospective and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, Rock and Roll Report, 6 February 2012

VERY LATE ONE evening in the very late 1980s, my oldest pal Doug and I were dejectedly roaming the Canadian television airwaves when we suddenly ...

Elvis Presley, Orion: Not Elvis, BUT….

Retrospective by Gary Pig Gold, Rock's Backpages, 11 August 2012

FIRST, THERE WAS you-know-who. Or at least up until thirty-five years ago there was. ...

Paul Williams: Paul Williams: Still Alive directed by Stephen Kessler

Film/DVD/TV Review by Gary Pig Gold, Rock's Backpages, March 2013

I FIRST became aware of the man in 1970, as composer of what to this very day remains my absolute favourite Three Dog Night tune, ...

The Cowsills: 45 Things I Bet You NEVER Knew about The Cowsills...

Retrospective by Gary Pig Gold, Rock's Backpages, 27 April 2013

…even after watching Louise Palanker's absolutely riveting Family Band documentary. ...

Paul Williams – Still Alive!!

Retrospective by Gary Pig Gold, PopDiggers, 9 November 2013

I FIRST BECAME aware of the man in 1970, as composer of what to this very day remains my absolute favourite Three Dog Night tune, ...

Jan & Dean: A Walk on the Wet Side: Gary Pig Gold In Conversation With Mark A. Moore

Interview by Gary Pig Gold, Vulcher, January 2017

ONE THING THAT'S always bugged me – besides the price of Ramones t-shirts at the Newark Airport CBGB, that is: Why the name Jan Berry ...

Jan & Dean: Riding The Wild Surf: Jan Berry and the Birth of West Coast Rock

Retrospective by Gary Pig Gold, earcandymag.com, April 2017

THERE'S BRIAN and his Beach Boys, most obviously. Then there were Crosby, Stills, Nash and sometimes Young, the Eagles, and my own personal favourite Turtles, ...

The Shaggs: The Philosophy Of 50 Years

Retrospective by Gary Pig Gold, Segarini, 15 April 2019

ON AN EVEN damper than usual Spring afternoon in 1969, three guitar-and-drum-beating sisters from tiny Fremont, New Hampshire, entered an even tinier recording studio and ...

Pat Boone: The Literary Boone

Memoir by Gary Pig Gold, Ballbuster Music, 1 June 2020

THE CHRISTMAS following my Pancakes with Pat, a strange package arrived on my doorstep from a hitherto unknown address in Burbank, California. "Boone Productions, Inc.," ...

Keith Richards: Keith turns 77: Morgan Neville's Keith Richards – Under The Influence

Film/DVD/TV Review by Gary Pig Gold, Roctober, 18 December 2020

I LOVE KEITH. You love Keith. We ALL love Keith Richards. In fact, very personally speaking, if it wasn't for my first encountering the hallowed ...

The Beatles "Meet the..."

Retrospective by Gary Pig Gold, earcandymag.com, 14 January 2021

BEING EIGHT YEARS old in the Toronto suburbs of 1963, I was at the perfect age – and in the perfect place – to, yes, ...

Del Shannon: Endless Shannon

Memoir by Gary Pig Gold, Segarini, 16 February 2021

RELEASED PRECISELY Sixty (!) Years Ago This Very Month: One of the absolutely greatest Rock 'n' Roll recordings EVER. Now, fast forward a quarter century ...

The Byrds, Roger McGuinn: Happy Birthday This Month from Gary Pig Gold to Both Roger And Jim McGuinn

Comment by Gary Pig Gold, Segarini, July 2022

IT'S BECOMING increasingly obvious, with every passing year and with every passing trend, that the Byrds were just about the greatest rock'n'roll band America ever ...

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