Soundcheck Interview About Rocks Off
From WNYC and NPR: Stream Interview
Dick Morgan Meets a Freshman
When I was a freshman in college in 1985, I went down to Georgetown with Marybeth Fottler, Jason Bassilakis, and Tim Donovan for spring break. We stayed at Bass’ sister’s place. The drinking age was still 18 there. It has just changed in Massachusetts. We went bar hopping, of course, and saw a chalkboard sign on …
May 1991 Journal Entry from a Buffalo Tom Tour
I was up in my attic this weekend looking for baseball cards to show my son. I came across a big box of my old notebooks. I did keep journals while Buffalo Tom was in full swing, but I was not a diarist. Most of the stuff is meandering impressionistic, melancholy (if not despondent) rumination …
Wall Street Journal Review of Rocks Off
September 13, 2013, 3:41 p.m. ET Book Review: ‘Rocks Off’ by Bill Janovitz There are many sorts of Rolling Stones fans, but all of them will love this book. By KEN KURSON I used to work with a salesman who wore a Rolling Stones tongue-logo tie every day. His Stones were the Stones …
Giant Kings, Last Call
I stopped into Mouradian Guitars in Winchester a few weeks ago on a whim. I usually take my guitars there to be repaired by the legendary Jim Mouradian, and guitars for sale line the walls. But Jim and his son also have a few scattered vintage combo amps on the floor near the front of …
New Home Movie Music Video for “Best Route”
Just a little end-of-summer home movie I stitched together to the song. This now brings us to three videos for the Walt Whitman Mall record. This one by my brother, Paul, for “Long Island”: And this very home movie-ish slideshow for an early mix of “Withering”:
Huffington Post Stones List
A little controversy over at HuffPo. I was asked to choose some of my personal faves from my book of 50. The site then lopped off one and titled it “Nine Best Rolling Stones Songs.” Well, you can imagine the fallout! I mean, any limited list is going to stir up trouble in comment land, …
Gigs/Events
EDITED 7/31/13: Hi, some gigs to tell you about: August 2 — BILL JANOVITZ NEW YORK TOUR — I will be playing with another superb backing band, this time made up of New York ringers, Neil Nunziato, Billy Ryan, and Matt Lindsey at Spike Hill in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with more or less the same kind …
Early Reviews/Publicity for Rocks Off
UPDATED 7/23/2013 See new piece at Rolling Stone.com, James Sullivan Boston Globe with Sarah Rodman: For a guy who has dubbed himself “Part-Time Man of Rock” Bill Janovitz is awfully busy. On Thursday he will celebrate the release of his superb new solo album, “Walt Whitman Mall,” with a show at the Lizard Lounge. …
My Uncle
Yesterday, my uncle’s murderer plead guilty to that crime and will be sentenced to 17 years in prison. In October 2009, James Arauz stabbed Vincent Pravata more than 20 times in Vince’s own home. As Vince’s beloved dog, Gracie, barked and cried, Arauz dragged Vince’s body into the hallway of his house, out of …