In Lonn Friend's latest column he recalls some of his favorite memories of Michelle Meldrum, the Phantom Blue guitarist who lost her life to a brain tumor earlier this month. Join Lonn as he pays tribute to his friend.
- Read the full Phantom Takes Flight op/ed
So there are these kids in Florida a few years back between the ages of 10 and 15, banging out metal in their garage ala my longtime Bay Area brothers, Metallica. The neighbors get wind of the noise and come knocking and rocking.
- Read the full The Tides They Are a Changing op/ed
During one of the two lengthy pauses in my career, approaching the millennium, I had this heal the world idea to assemble six of my favorite songstresses for an end of century recording of "Amazing Grace."
- Read the full Romancing the Muse op/ed
I get lost so easily in this space. Stay on theme, nutty professor. Writing has long been a metaphor for my life. Moments of chaos, moments of clarity, fear and love in constant, Tolkein-esque battle, fairy tale real.
- Read the full On Loving and Being Loved op/ed
Lonn waxes poetic on P.O.D., Arista, Clive, The Bogmen, Liberal politics and more.
- Read the full No Expectations op/ed
And there we sit, two fans, side by side, third row, close enough to see it all, even without the amazing stage length mega screen. And it is all there for they are there. The quartet, slightly altered from the original, but in blood and name, an even purer Van Halen.
- Read the full And the Desert Did Rock op/ed
I was standing in the backstage hallway of the Allstate Arena when the lights went down. Instantly, the 17,000 sold out faithful exploded into a thunderous din the likes of which I hadn't heard in years.
- Read the full Faith, Glory and Medicine for the Masses op/ed
The End Times are not just defined by man's inhumanity to man. Dancing with the Stars is the number one rated network show in America. Phil Spector committed murder and walked thanks to the smoke created by his celebrity.
- Read the full The Fri-End Times op/ed
The spirit of the 1960s is alive and well as Lonn recently discovered. "We must travel together, astral partners in rhyme, dime and crime, and hopefully cross energy fields out there somewhere allowing for some truly sweet music."
- Read the full The Bright Stuff op/ed
antiMusic is excited to welcome Lonn Friend as a contributor. Here is Lonn: "Yes this will be about music and not the dropping of names begetting fortune and fame and more often than not shame. This is about gratitude."
- Read the full Granola Girls op/ed
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