Comments on: Ginger’s Secret History Of Rock’N'Roll (Pt 25)

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:59:46 +0000

I found them in the early ninties and have bought everything I can find of theirs. I wish James Mankey was my guitar teacher, his guitar licks always fit so well with the feel of each song. He doesn’t ever seem to sacrifice the continuity of the song just to show off. So many lead guitarist like to use those really fast Jimi Hendrix wanna-be guitar licks that don’t even sound like they are related to the song their used in. James and Johnette are originals who deserve more recognition.

By: neil

neil — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:42:30 +0000

good article, just thought you should have pointed out that Beware of Darkness is a George Harrison song, i believe it’s on All Things Must Pass

By: ColinJ

ColinJ — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:51:23 +0000

Thanks for turning me onto this record, Ginger. It’s wonderful.

It’s one that I admit I would never have given a second look, but I found it in a bargain bin for $9 and snapped it up based purely on reading your column.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:41:03 +0000

Love Concrete Blonde and I was lucky enough to see them live when they toured Australia in the early days of their career. Thankfully, Australia was their biggest market apparently so they were on the radio constantly and I had all their albums up until Bloddletting. Ginger’s article has inspired me to look for the later albums on e-bay so I’m off to do that now.

By: noddynewbold

noddynewbold — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:54:10 +0000

Love this LP Ginger. Concrete Blonde followed it up with some superb stuff over the years, Free (God Is A Bullet anyone!), Bloodletting & Mexican Moon spring to mind immediately.
Yet another ’shoulda been enormous’ band that the UK largely ignored (so what’s new eh)

By: Manny

Manny — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:04:47 +0000

Ginger,

This is one of my favorite albums of all time and it is great to see this album getting some love. Johnette IMO was and is one of the best songwriters of her generation, it is a shame that outside of the song ‘Joey’ very few people knew this band or bothered with the later releases. The world of music is much poorer for ignoring this classic and thank you for the excellent write album on this true alternative classic.
Manny