Pearl Jam Twenty Film Review

On October 3, 2011, in Film, Music, by RDM

This was originally posted to the Cumulus Media Rock websites. There is a pantheon of music documentaries that have become cinematic classics: The Song Remains The  Same, the story of the preparations for and performance of a 1973 Led Zeppelin concert at what was then the “new” Madison Square Garden, the no holds barred film about The Who, The Kids [...]

PJ20 Destination Weekend: A Reflection

On September 8, 2011, in Music, by RDM

This column also ran across the Citadel Broadcasting Rock Websites in a slightly different form and with a few more pictures.  There’s A Light I am sitting in my office, in Manhattan staring at the rain which has been pouring down all day.  I last saw steady, driving rain was days ago in a valley [...]

Remembering The Early Days of MTV

On August 2, 2011, in Music, by RDM

This column originally appeared on the Citadel Digital websites under the RightNowRadio brand. August 1, 1981: The United States had a fairly new President, Russia was still a looming threat, NASA was testing something called a Space Shuttle and at 12:01 that morning, a few thousand people on a cable network in Northern New Jersey [...]