Parliament-Funkadelic
Calvin Simon, Parliament-Funkadelic Co-Founder, Dead at Age 79
Parliament-Funkadelic co-founder Calvin Simon has died at the age of 79. His former bandmates Bootsy Collins and George Clinton announced the news on social media. “We lost another Original member of Parliament/Funkadelic,” Collins wrote on Instagram. “A friend, bandmate & a cool classic guy, Mr. Calvin Simon was a former member of Parliament/Funkadelic. He’s in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen members of P-Funk! R.I.P” “Rest in peace to my P-Funk brother Mr. Calvin Simon,” Clinton wrote on Facebook. “Longtime Parliament-Funkadelic vocalist. Fly on Calvin” Simon was born in Beckley, West Virginia in 1942, and grew up singing in a church choir for weekly radio broadcasts. His family eventually moved to New Jersey, and at age 13 Simon took a job as a barber. ...
The 50 Best Live Albums of the 1970s
The concert industry exploded in the 1970s, and the live album, a stopgap project once reserved for only the biggest artists, became a compulsory ritual and a pivotal moment for many artists. Live albums captured legendarily loud bands like The Who and The Ramones in their natural element. Once obscure regional acts like Bob Seger, KISS and Cheap Trick exploded into the mainstream with live albums. The Band, The Stooges, and Velvet Underground put their final gigs on vinyl. Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young (as his ongoing archive series shows), and Jackson Browne recorded entire sets of new songs onstage. The Grateful Dead released several official live albums (and continue to do so) that only made fans want to bootleg shows on their own more. With the 50th anniversary of a landmark live album, Th...
