“Dark Shadows Theme” (Robert Cobert)This is the perfect introductory track for any and every Halloween playlist. Robert Cobert (appropriately born on October 26, 1924), composed this ghostly, iconic, shivering score with trembling theremin for the Gothic TV show Dark Shadows in 1966. It conjures images of the clammy Collinwood mansion and stormy, windswept seashores. “It …
Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
(The following text is the first chapter of David McGowan‘s astonishing book “Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon‘ The very strange, but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia, in which Laurel Canyon’s colorful characters – rock stars, hippies, murderers and politicos – happily coexisted alongside a covert military installation.) There’s …
KISS – KISS (1974)
As they have been for the last 44 years, I do not like this band. I think Gene Simmons is a prat, I think the band became more a marketing exercise than an actual group, and for the most part I hate their hits. BUT let me explain. Having not been born until 1984, KISS …