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The moment Tron begins, its literally off to the races. Just one minute into the 1982 film that transformed cinema, the audience is dropped into a se

Rolling Stone Jonathan Taplin Tour-Managed Rock Royalty. Now He’s Telling His Stories In a new memoir, Taplin recalls what it was like to watch Dylan go electric, George Harrison speed-drive, and Clapton and the Band wrestle with demons and drugs By John Scheele* Jonathan Taplin wasn’t present at the creation, but in rock & roll terms, he came close enough. He witnessed Bob Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival, saw Jimi Hendrix and many others at Monterey Pop, ...

  By the time The Band was ready to record their third album, Stage Fright, in 1970, they were riding high from having released back-to-back albums that solidified them as one of the most exciting and revolutionary groups of the late 1960s. Seemingly coming from nowhere and everywhere in ‘68, their landmark debut album, Music From Big Pink, drew from the American roots music panoply of country, blues, R&B, gospel, soul, rockabilly, the honking tenor sax tradition, hymns, funeral dirges, b...

Stage Fright will be the subject of an expanded 50th anniversary box set. The upcoming reissue will feature a remixed and remastered album presented in its originally planned song order. “I’m enjoying this new version, this story, this musical journey,” Robbie Robertson, who oversaw the sets creation, said in an official statement. “It feels like a fulfillment, and I know my brothers in the Band would definitely agree.” The multi-format Super Deluxe box set includes two CDs, two Blu-...