steve newton
@earofnewt
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freelance music-writer and journalist for 40 years; author of the 2018 beer-table book Gord Downie; check out my interviews with rock legends on my Patreon page
Vancouver, Canada
Joined September 2010
remember how you'd set the needle down on the opening track of a new rock album and the very first tune would just blow you the funk away?. #TheJGeilsBand #Heart #AliceCooper #Aerosmith #BobSeger #DeepPurple #ThinLizzy #NeilYoung #IanHunter #Montrose.
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Remember how you'd set the needle down on the opening track of a new rock album and the very first tune would just blow you the funk away?
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RT @DiaperDiplomacy: “The numbers were ridiculous.” Naturally, she’s fired. Ended the war in Congo & Rwanda too.
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on this day in 1984 I called up #Toronto vocalist #HollyWoods in advance of three gigs at #Vancouver's #ClubSoda: . "Hopefully we can get Darby [Mills] and [Brian "Too Loud"] MacLeod up [to jam]. It doesn’t take too much to get MacLeod up.". #Headpins.
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"We kept it because we didn't want fans to think that the band was totally dissolved, because it isn't. Fortunately they've stuck with us."
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35 years ago today I went and interviewed Canadian guitar great #GayeDelorme at his apartment in #Vancouver's West End, and I was honoured to get the scoop on his career .
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Born in Thunder Bay and raised in Edmonton, Delorme learned to play guitar as a way of straightening out his life while a teenager.
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remembering #Ratt guitarist #RobbinCrosby, born on this day in 1959 in La Jolla, California. Back in '89 he told me how he felt about #JethroTull winning the Grammy in the metal category: . "It shoulda been the Gunners.". @ThisDayInMETAL #GunsNRoses.
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Few award presentations in the history of rock music have caused as much controversy as the one that took place on February 6, 1989.
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RT @MarkJCarney: Early this morning, the Canadian Armed Forces airdropped life-saving aid into Gaza. The humanitarian disaster in Gaza i….
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RT @BlueATLGeorgia: John Oliver not mincing words: "Gaza is starving, is a sentence that's objectively true, but it's also slightly mislead….
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happy 62nd birthday to #Metallica's #JamesHetfield who, when he was 23, three months after #CliffBurton's death, told me "you can't give up". @Metallica @ult_metallica @SpeakNDestroy_ @brianslagel @ryandowney @ThisDayInMETAL @BLABBERMOUTHNET #metal.
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my list of cool stuff to do in #Vancouver this week . @blurofficial @RioTheatre #blurLiveAtWembley @itsmaddykelly @ChillxStudio #SabbathOzzyTribute @HollywoodYVR #SackBlabbath #SurfTrash @ThePearlVancity @clutchofficial @PNE_Playland @LauraBallance @mmann
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something I wrote about #DriveByTruckers songwriting genius #MikeCooley back in 2012. @drivebytruckers @pattersonhood #ZipCity @eyesofnewt1 @missippilive @GhostofParties @newwestrecords @AndyColunga.
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A couple of years back I posted a blog on the songwriting genius of Mike Cooley, and mentioned four of the tunes that I love most of his.
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RT @AdameMedia: 🚨 THE BBC JUST TURNED ON ISRAEL . "The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been s….
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RT @AJEnglish: This Palestinian child managed to get a small bag of flour from an airdrop of aid, while people in Gaza desperately struggle….
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30 years ago today I had a nice little chat with #ColinJames . "I took some funky pills.". @ColinJamesMusic @BluesMusicMag @RockBluesMuse #BadHabits #ChrisKimsey #WaddyWachtel @LosLobosBand.
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RT @AntiTrumpCanada: BREAKING: Donald Trump has fired the official White House scale after it displayed “fat fuck.” Trump claims it was a D….
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remembering #MojoNixon, born on this day in 1957 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Back in 1993 I called him and #CountryDickMontana up in Hollywood and they figured out how to use a speakerphone. @beatfarmers @MojoNixonWorldE #PleasureBarons.
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Today I posted the 300th audio recording on my Patreon page, and I wanted it to be something special. Thank you Mojo Nixon and Country Dick.
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happy 72nd birthday to #RobertCray, who once told me how surprised he was that #EricClapton covered his song "Bad Influence".
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At one point I asked Robert Cray if he was surprised that Slowhand had chosen to cover his tune, and it turns out that he was.
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