PIGSHIT: 12 You May Have Missed In 2012

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Those Beach Boys and Rolling Stones weren’t the only septuagenarian rockers celebrating 50th (give or take) Anniversaries over the past twelve-or-so months, absolutely not. Just about each and every singer/songwriter/guitarist still standing – well, those with lucratively deep catalogues ripe … Continue reading →

PIGSHIT: Gary Pig Gold’s Top 12 of 2012

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BOB DYLAN Tempest www.bobdylan.com Well, it certainly provides the Perfect soundtrack to the Man/the Legend's latestRolling Stone interview, for starters. Continue reading →

Five Things I Saw & Heard This Week: Wednesday 28th November

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The Return Of Scott Walker Exciting news for us Scott fans! In a relatively revealing Guardian interview as his new album, Bish Bosch, is launched Scott talks about his fear of performing, as well as saying that no promoter would put him on anyway, as they’re only interested in money. But Scott could tour cultural festivals, not rock arenas, if he chose. Continue reading →

PIGSHIT: Bob Revealed

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A mere twenty-eight seconds into Joel Gilbert’s extensive new Bob Dylan Revealed documentary, the subject matter himself warns us “There’s many sides to the coin, y’know, and you haveta really, uh, the longer you go on, the more sides you show that are, that are, that are there to be, uh, unraveled.” So in between sessions with Daniel Mark Epstein’s 496-page The Ballad of Bob Dylan , and the actual man’s actual Original Mono Recordings box, I spent the month of Robert Allen Zimmerman’s 70th (!) birthday pondering that… 1.  Although the subject is dwelled upon for less than a minute during Bob Dylan Revealed (we are later treated to some great Super 8 footage of him gallivanting ’round Europe with his young bard however), Albert Grossman and that more-than-complex relationship with Bob Dylan is delved into, and possibly even explained, in a way Martin Scorsese failed to during all two-hundred-and-eight minutes of his own No Direction Home. 2.  “1966 Electric World Tour” drummist Mickey Jones also offers personal home movies of Dont Look Back (and almost Eat the Document ) director D.A Continue reading →