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Table of Contents - Issue 46

This issue might be about two sides of rock and roll. At one end we have Pink Floyd and David Gilmour's floating state of the art studio, Astoria — an overachievement of creating the best recordings possible. On the other side we have Tommy Ramone, the original brains behind the Ramones and drummer/producer basically by default. He ran with a band that sought to strip rock and roll down to its simplest core and made history. But it's all about music, isn't it? Both of these bands/artists/producers take up a fair share of my record collection, along with many other bands, genres and ideas. There's room for a lot of music out there...