Read by Lenny Kaye

“We have performed side-by-side on the global stage through half a century…. In Lightning Striking, Lenny Kaye has illuminated ten facets of the jewel called rock and roll from a uniquely personal and knowledgeable perspective.” 

–Patti Smith

An insider’s take on the evolution and enduring legacy of the music that rocked the twentieth century

Memphis, 1954. New Orleans 1957. Philadelphia 1959. Liverpool, 1962. San Francisco 1967. Detroit 1969. New York, 1975. London 1977. Los Angeles 1984 / Norway 1993. Seattle 1991.

Rock and roll was birthed in basements and garages, radio stations and dance halls, in cities where unexpected gatherings of artists and audience changed and charged the way music is heard and celebrated, capturing lightning in a bottle. Musician and writer Lenny Kaye explores ten crossroads of time and place that define rock and roll, its unforgettable flashpoints, characters and visionaries, how each generation came to be, how it was discovered by the world. Whether describing Elvis Presley’s Memphis, the Beatles’ Liverpool, Patti Smith’s New York or Kurt Cobain’s Seattle, Lightning Striking reveals the communal energy that creates a scene, a guided tour inside style and performance, to see who’s on stage, along with the movers and shakers, the hustlers and hangers-on, and why everybody is listening. 

Grandly sweeping and minutely detailed, informed by Kaye’s acclaimed knowledge and experience as a working musician, Lightning Striking is an ear-opening insight into our shared musical and cultural history, a carpet ride of rock and roll’s most influential movements and moments.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

LIGHTNING STRIKING by Lenny Kaye

Tim Riley reviews Dvorak's Prophcy, by Joseph Horowitz

DVORAK

Tim Riley reviews "Lightning Striking" by Lenny Kaye

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Cheerless - Heat

What if you sped up the album Ram by Paul McCartney 27 percent -- from 33.3 rpm to 45 rpm? And then what if you pitch-corrected it back down 27 percent? Well, this is what. It squeezes all the marijuana out of it. Read all about it on Geoff Geis' blog! http://geoffgeis.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/fast-ram-revisited/  AND ... Read all about it on the Songs You Probably Haven't Heard Facebook page!  https://www.facebook.com/SongsYouProbablyHaventHeard Please like and share!!

Fast Ram -- Sped Up And Pitch Corrected

Tailwind

A discussion of how Chris Thile's performance of Bach Violin Partitas for Violin on his mandolin hews to the baroque ideal. Tim Riley

CHRIS THILE, PAUL ELIE and BACH VIOLIN SUITES on MANDOLIN

marvin gaye. aint that peculiar(edit)

NoteTooDeep- Motown Sessions CD--- coming soon.
Aint that peculiar Marvin Gaye
(Deep House Vocal Mix)
Produced and mixed by Nick Kaduwa

Aint That Peculiar- Marvin Gaye (Deep House Motown Sessions Vocal Mix)

Ain't That Peculiar (Konnekt Remix)

This is a lost gem of 21 year old Bonnie Raitt singing an unplugged cut of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock".  Recorded in March 1971 at the Jabberwocky Club in the basement of the cafeteria at Syracuse University. The gig was recorded by WAER radio but was never released on her albums.  Its considered a bootleg and hard to find.  Many current music stars like James Taylor played here because WAER would do these broadcasts "live" to the New York area.

Woodstock, B Raitt

TIM RILEY BIOGRAPHY

NPR Critic and Emerson College Journalism professor Tim Riley has written five critically-acclaimed books on rock history, including Lennon: the Man, the Myth, and the Music (Hyperion, 2011). Kirkus Reviews chose it one of their best biographies from that year, The New York Times praised it as "potently descriptive... a critical tour-de-force," and Rolling Stone called it "…the most reliable, least star-struck volume on Lennon to date...”

For over twenty-five years, Riley has reviewed pop and classical music for NPR's Here And Now, while contributing to shows like On Point, All Things Considered and Morning Edition, as well as Radio Silence, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Slate.com and Salon.com.

He was trained as a classical pianist at Oberlin and Eastman. In 2008, Brown University hosted Riley as its Critic-In Residence, and his first book, Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), often gets assigned in pop culture and rock history courses. Since 1990, Riley has given lively multi-media lectures at colleges and cultural centers like the Chautauqua Festival on "Censorship in the Arts." His current projects include the Riley Rock Index.com, music's meta-portal, and the Emerson journalism department's social media initiative.

For more info and hi-rez media, visit: http://timrileyauthor.com


CHRIS THILE, PAUL ELIE and BACH VIOLIN SUITES on MANDOLIN

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