Here it is 5:13 pm on Friday …it feels like Easter should be this weekend, doesn’t it? Here’s the Stardust YouTube clip of the upcoming David Bowie biopic from Gabriel Range …Notice the Adventure Set in the Noise lo those many years ago…and an A & R Rejection Letter for the band The Realm, a group which appeared on my anthology series many years ago
Gabriel Range film Stardust clip – David Bowie Biopic
Photo by Jeannie Archibald THE SALT WATER SUMMERS https://soundcloud.com/joe-viglione/the-salt-water-summers The Salt Water Summers, written by Joe Viglione The Salt Water Summers, as heard on WBCN in 1972, released in 1976 on Varulven Records, four years later, and the rest is history…signed to New Rose Records original Flamingo/Carrere label as the first artist with a full album from Patrick Mathe. Photography by Jeannie Archibald. Keyboards and bass Greg Tarbox, drums Sim Lee, all guitars Joe Viglione Ginny and Patty on backing vocals. Engineered by Andy Mendelson in Arlington. Landed us in Playboy Magazine as one of Boston’s five best bands – Record of the Month in both Phonograph Record Magazine in California (Greg Shaw,) and L’Attendandt in Belgium (thanks Mach Bell for bringing back the review.) WBCN had Artist of the Day in 1972 and 1973, I was on twice back them.
May 14 or 15 1998 about a day or so after the passing of Frank Sinatra (May 14, 1998) – Sinatra covered “Sunny” by Bobby Hebb. This is a snapshot from Joe Viglione’s upcoming documentary on the life of Bobby Hebb. Video to post: Legendary guitarist Gerry Beaudioin, partner of John “J” Geils and Bobby Hebb guitarist on July 26, 2012 which would have been Bobby Hebb’s 74th birthday. We lost Bobby on August 3, 2010. Part of a documentary that Director Joe Viglione is creating on the life of Bobby “Sunny” Hebb. Copyright (C) 2012 Joe Viglione Productions, all rights reserved.
Visual Radio The Demo That Got The Deal (TM) with The Arrows and Allen Merrill…where Joan Jett picked up the song. Visual Radio The Demo That Got The Deal (TM) with The Arrows and Allen Merrill…where Joan Jett picked up the song.
As I work I considered Top Gun on AMC but just can’t bring myself to listen to it (instead of watch it)…so ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE will play in the background as I keep working away Very angry at Lazenby’s agent who told him not to do another Bond picture. He and Timothy Dalton are my two favorite Bonds…used to be Roger Moore but Tim and George are tied at #1 with Roger 2nd and Sean 3rd. I cannot get used to Daniel Craig…
As I work I considered Top Gun on AMC but just can’t bring myself to listen to it (instead of watch it)…so ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE will play in the background as I keep working away Very angry at Lazenby’s agent who told him not to do another Bond picture. He and Timothy Dalton are my two favorite Bonds…used to be Roger Moore but Tim and George are tied at #1 with Roger 2nd and Sean 3rd. I cannot get used to Daniel Craig…
I’ve written for so many publications it is wonderfully ridiculous. In 2008 and 2009 – around that period – I write quite a bit for the Malden Observer. Here are just some of the writings http://joeviglione.com/?page_id=927 It is 1:37 am on April 7, 2020…gotta get some rest. https://muckrack.com/joe-viglione/articles
Secret Things…the lost sequel to Joe Viglione’s 1985 New Changes album about to be unleashed on the planet Title track is the theme to the new UPLIFT cable TV show See the Secret Things / New Changes page http://joeviglione.com/?page_id=8696:34 pm Saturday April 4, 2020Beloved TIGER in Wayback Machine Archive.org – photo fell off of MySpace https://myspace.com/joeviglione https://myspace.com/jojolaine
Hello friends…it is 5:15 pm on Monday, April 6th, 2020. Paul Norman has chosen my song “Secret Things” to be the theme of his new Uplift TV show. https://upliftshow.com/uplift-theme-song prompting me to create an entire page for the lost album of mine, Secret Things http://joeviglione.com/?page_id=869 with a painting from Gustav Dore re: Paradise Lost. More like Paradise Found 2020 Edition! The original painting was up on MySpacee…anyone remember MySpace? https://myspace.com/secret_things ….. Working on my Hotline To The Underground for the Somerville/Medford News Weekly As some of you may know, the late Patrick Mathe’ at New Rose/Last Call Records utilized the Gustav Dore painting of Don Quixote for my New Changes album in 1985 https://paintingandframe.com/prints/gustave_dore_don_quixote_on_horseback-73047.html
Working on lots of new documentary films…stay tuned for Live at Club Bohemia – the DocumentaryThese MySpace pages were once flourishing sites https://myspace.com/martybalinmiraclesSelfie photo April 4, 2020 about 6:30 pm or so…6:34 to be exact. How will serious art reflect this Twilight Zone film we are living in with COVID-19? The clouds were so aligned yesterday that I took a number of photos from different angles.
FOREWORD: Welcome to the wonderful psychedelic mystical esoteric world of Joe Viglione…you’ve entered my realm …as my director says “An Encyclopedia Brittanica” or my thoughts, impressions and scribblings which all started in 1969, 51 years ago, in the pages of Varulven Magazine. The photo below is forty years later in 1999 interviewing either Suzanne Vega or Dennis Lehane. Video, audio, the Pop Explosion Radio Show (Gilbert Gottfried audio aired on April 3, 2020 on ActivateMedia.org …) It’s about FUN and Rock History and more…enjoy and you can write me JoeViglione{@}yahoo.com
the band on my first album circa 1978Photo improved by Ghil Scraw – Upper left John Hovorka, Tom Dickie, Fred Pineau, Paul Robinson, Joe Viglione …don’t think that’s Gary Soprano, maybe it’s Bob Benjamin? Photo in the Boston Rock & Roll Anthology Vol. 2
I’m The Light by Blue Cheer One of my ALL TIME Favorite Songs and a major influence on my songwriting https://youtu.be/WggA9pb3zmU
Like Grand Funk Railroad’s “Closer To Home (I’m Your Captain)” this song is a brilliant anomaly from a group known for hard power trio rock-turned-blues. This is a spacey, early Pink Floyd-ish bending of exotic instruments to come up with a complex texture that should’ve been a huge hit for this venerable group. 6:27 PM 10-21-09
It’s one foot in the astral world Other one in the breeze “I’m the Light” (Houseman, Mayell) – 5:39
Nice to see my AMG review of this track popping up when you do a Google search on it: But it is the sixth track on their sixth album that is the finest moment ever for Blue Cheer. The harp, exotic instrumentation, and Pink Floyd overtones make “I’m the Light” an extraordinary piece of music. “I’m the Light” is to Blue Cheer what “Stairway to Heaven” is to Led Zeppelin, what “Closer to Home” is to Mark Farner and Grand Funk — a moment of inspiration and production that stands the test of time and that is hard to match. This is a band famous for hard rock sounds creating a pop masterpiece of psychedelic cosmic consciousness. The song seems almost out of place on this collection, but it is truly one of those songs that demands attention and is worth seeking out.
“Hiway Man,” which opens the sixth album by Blue Cheer, is a far cry from their version of Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues,” which launched this group to worldwide fame. And though they were the original group to put their amps on “11,” Oh! Pleasant Hope is a musical album. This first track, resplendent in heavy vocal reverb, sounds like Waylon Jennings fronting Quicksilver Messenger Service. OPH quickly changes pace with “Believer”‘s interesting riff and the experimental production by Blue Cheer and Eric Albronda. Albronda assisted on the production of the self-titled fourth album, Blue Cheer, and co-produced BC#5 – The Original Human Being. It is the production that is a significant ingredient that makes this project by a legendary cult band so appealing. “Money Troubles” is written by Dr. Richard Peddicord, who contributes guitar and vocal. This track has that authentic laid-back West Coast sound, a feel much like “Truckin'” by the Grateful Dead — the album having been recorded by Coast Recorders at Mission Street, San Francisco. “Traveling Man” is like a pensive Creedence Clearwater, say John Fogerty in his “Long As I Can See the Light” fashion with a bit more brightness. The title track, “Oh! Pleasant Hope,” has a piano and drums opening into sudden guitar, the second title from Dr. Peddicord, a very precise ballad about drugs. The psychedelic denim pastiche of the album cover comes to life in this very Band-inspired rag. But it is the sixth track on their sixth album that is the finest moment ever for Blue Cheer. The harp, exotic instrumentation, and Pink Floyd overtones make “I’m the Light” an extraordinary piece of music. “I’m the Light” is to Blue Cheer what “Stairway to Heaven” is to Led Zeppelin, what “Closer to Home” is to Mark Farner and Grand Funk — a moment of inspiration and production that stands the test of time and that is hard to match. This is a band famous for hard rock sounds creating a pop masterpiece of psychedelic cosmic consciousness. The song seems almost out of place on this collection, but it is truly one of those songs that demands attention and is worth seeking out. “Lester the Arrester” is paranoia about cops, kinda sorta. It is a band that wasn’t known for its musical prowess having fun with sound and styles. “Heart Full of Soul” leans more toward “A Little Bit O’Soul” by the Music Explosion than the song of the same name by the Yardbirds. Oh! Pleasant Hope is a disc for people looking for musical ingenuity that hasn’t been beaten into the psyche via classic hits radio. It is a monumental and largely forgotten effort with a lot of depth. ~ Joe Viglione https://www.fishpond.com/Music/Oh-Pleasant-Hope-Blue-Cheer/4988031194980
AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione [-]The Jonzun Crew’s long-awaited fourth album, Cosmic Love, was released on the BMG-distributed Critique label in 1990. Michael Jonzun had — and still has — vast archives of songs recorded during this period. Like so many, the very excellent “Baby I Surrender” is not on this collection, but that doesn’t stop Cosmic Love from still being an important and highly listenable part of the Jonzun Brothers’ history. A band that should have released at least a dozen discs by this point in time, Mission Control Studios owner Michael Jonzun crafted his album over many years, and the precision and care he put into Cosmic Love is obvious from start to finish. The controlled insanity of the band’s earlier success is absent, replaced by smooth soul, studied R&B, and no-nonsense funk-rock. The title track shimmers with the vibrations found on the best records by the Commodores, while “Write Me Off” sounds like a direction Stevie Wonder could have chosen. Why the New Kids on the Block weren’t brought in to promote this music in TV ads is perplexing — NKOTB were huge at the time and core fans of Jonzun Crew couldn’t wait for their next release. There are ten songs here bookended by a prologue and epilogue, perfectly produced epics culminating in the superb “Wall of Fame.” The general public had no idea that this was the co-producer of two hugely popular groups, along with hit recordings by Peter Wolf, and this album drifted into obscurity as one of the best kept secrets in Boston rock & roll. La Vern Baker producer Barry Marshall shows up on guitar, as does Phil Greene from the ’70s band Swallow — there are lots of Boston “underground” names on the disc, yet the band was never embraced by the Boston “critics” and few understood the depth of Jonzun’s artistry. “Living in This World” is a nice ballad, while “Playhouse” is powerful dance-funk. The telling moment on the disc, though, the potential hit that never got the attention that it deserved is, as mentioned, the final song, “Wall of Fame.” This one tune contains all the finest elements of the Jonzun Crew’s best work, and that it didn’t take the charts by storm is a sin. “Ordinary Man,” “I Do Love You,” “Spotlight,” “This Time (Let’s Talk It Over”) could all hit for artists smart enough to seek this material out, but it is at its best when performed by Michael Jonzun. Though Cosmic Love may have a few too many love songs and ballads for fans of the group’s earlier hits, “Space Cowboy” and “Pac Jam,” it still is an impressive artistic statement, and a beautiful work which deserves a better place in music history. https://www.allmusic.com/album/cosmic-love-mw0000319254
Additional Information from Movie Mars Product Description A very interesting double LP retrospective two years after Jim Morrison’s version of the Doors had officially closed. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine contained the first album release of two B-sides, Willie Dixon’s “(You Need Meat) Don’t Go No Further,” sung by Ray Manzarek, originally on the flip side of the 1971 45 “Love Her Madly,” and the beautiful “Who Scared You,” “Wishful Sinful”‘s flip with Jim Morrison on vocals from a session in 1969. Both are worthwhile additions not found on their first “greatest hits” collection, 13. This compilation is a strange amalgam of their music, the LP title taken from a line in the song “The End,” which concludes side two. Five of the 22 songs are from the L.A. Woman sessions, including the title track of that album and the full length “Riders on the Storm,” both clocking in at seven-plus minutes. With “The End” and “When the Music’s Over” at 11:35 and 11:00 respectively, that’s 38 minutes and 38 seconds between four titles, more than a third of the 99-plus minutes of music on this collection. Nothing from Absolutely Live is included, and surprisingly, the classic “Waiting for the Sun” is not here, though that Morrison Hotel number would fit the mood perfectly. “Love Street,” the flip of “Hello I Love You,” is here, but pertinent singles like “Wishful Sinful” or “Do It” and its flip, “Runnin’ Blue,” from The Soft Parade, are all missing in action. The cover art pastiche by Bill Hoffman is worth the price of admission if you already have all this material, while the inside gatefold picture looks like an outtake from the first album. Bruce Harris’ liner notes are truly the ’60s merging with the ’70s; he calls Jim Morrison “merely the index of our possibilities” and states that Morrison didn’t want to be an idol “because he believed all idols were hollow.” The essay is all the more silly when you realize it isn’t tongue-in-cheek in the way Lou Reed’s incoherent ramblings inside Metal Machine Music are more enjoyable than the disc. Harris seems to actually believe what he pontificates. But the music is awesome, so put it on and read the Metal Machine Music scribblings instead. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine is a work of art in the first order, the way the Beatles #1 album is wonderfully redundant, and it should see the light of day again. This time they could add “Tree Trunk,” the flip of the “Get Up and Dance” 45 RPM from 1972’s Full Circle album. ~ Joe Viglione About Movie Mars
Back in 1973 I was in a trio with Jack Inza on drums and another Jack on guitar. Two guitar and drum band, sometimes keyboard. The fellow contacted me a couple of years ago to try to resurrect the past but…45 years or so later when I already am rocking out there at my convenience …well…but the interesting thing is that “I’m A Star” was written about him …he would denigrate my songs, my lifestyle…God bless him but his negativity was difficult to navigate. He idolized Neil Young yelling out “I Love You” at a concert at the Music Hall back in the day…anyway, here it is in all its glory, the first track off of my first album on Flamingo/Carrere back in 1978. Enjoy.
May 13, 1999 #Pixies Tribute review by #JoeViglioneProducer of the Year at WinCam August 31, 1991 Joe Viglione Op Ed in Billboard December 1992 the sequel to my Billboard piece in the Independent Music Producers Syndicate published by Wayne Green of CD Review Magazine. I was A & R for Wayne and signed Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane and Spirit with Randy California featuring Sarah Fleetwood performing “Nature’s Way” Joe V in the Twilight Zone March 31, 2020
Review of the Day – Livingstone Taylor: Back in the day my AMG Reviews were published in the NY Times (my film reviews,) Rolling Stone onlne, MSNBC, Billboard magazine…over a dozen sites, possibly dozens of sites. Now they are on eBay too. Here’s my Livingston Taylor on Rolling Stone.com
Welcome to the wonderful psychedelic mystical esoteric world of Joe Viglione…you’ve entered my realm …as my director says “An Encyclopedia Brittanica” or my thoughts, impressions and scribblings which all started in 1969, 51 years ago, in the pages of Varulven Magazine. The photo below is forty years later in 1999 interviewing either Suzanne Vega or Dennis Lehane. Video, audio, the Pop Explosion Radio Show (Gilbert Gottfried audio aired on April 3, 2020 on ActivateMedia.org …) It’s about FUN and Rock History and more…enjoy and you can write me JoeViglione{@}yahoo.com
Joe Viglione P.O. Box 2392, Woburn, MA 01888 visual_radio@yahoo.com
Before learning guitar, writing songs, donning a cape, and taking the stage name The Count, the Somerville native grew up in a home where his parents played records by Gerry Vale and Mario Lanza, and he listened to “Louie Louie” and “Pushin’ Too Hard” on WMEX. The name and the outfit came from his early love of monster movies, and he started a fanzine (1969) and later a record label (1976), both called Varulven (Swedish for werewolf). His band Still – with Jack Daniel and Jack Inza – did their first gig in 1973 at the Coral Reef in Everett. Starting in 1978, Viglione would eventually perform at the Paradise 49 times. He started hosting the Somerville public access show “TV Eye” in 1979, and has been producing and hosting the public access show “Visual Radio” (currently from studios in Winchester) since 1995. Viglione has also made his mark as a record producer, working with dozens of Boston bands includingUnnatural Axe, and releasing 20 volumes of “The Boston Rock & Roll Anthology Series.” In 2008, he directed and produced the DVD “Marty Balin Live on the Boston Esplanade.” In 2011, he’s executive producing a Bobby Hebb box set. He has, for years, written music and film reviews. “I’m still doing some composing,” he said. “I have a piano in the house and I have songs in me. But who has time?” (by Ed Symkus) – See more at: http://mmone.org/joe-viglione/#sthash.vXWw45Nw.dpuf
Hello Everyone, welcome to my brand new JoeViglione.com site.
First, I apologize for not having this page up and running properly over the past six years. As many of my friends in Massachusetts know I’ve been working diligently to correct the public access television situation in Medford, Massachusetts. This means going up to the City Council of Medford almost weekly to bring documents and insight, and rallying the troops so that great programming like Dennis Lehane’s recent visit to Bestsellers in Medford. A colleague calls me the “public access evangelist” and the Gospel, the good news, is that this essential platform for Freedom of Speech must be protected. It’s the American thing to do. Visual Radio has launched numerous hosts into access TV, the show generating more content and new hosts than most access TV stations. It is an accomplishment I am most proud of. This is my little “Foreword” to the webpage, thus the first person introduction.
Joe Viglione / Dennis Lehane in 1999 West Medford
New 2013 photo May 21, 2013 at Bestsellers in Medford
It isn’t as easy as connecting with the guest and taping and editing, though it should be. The individuals who are paid our franchise fees to help us do access tv have hijacked it, plain and simple. We are fighting City Hall…and we are winning. More information as this site updates.
Joe Viglione is the producer and director of Marty Balin Live on the Boston Esplanade
The first solo concert/documentary film on the founding member of the Jefferson Airplane distributed worldwide on Music Video Distributors.
Joe was the first album artist signed to Flamingo/Carrere in 1978, Paris, France.
Flamingo evolved to become New Rose Records where Joe released three additional albums, with material on a number of the New Rose compilation albums, photos and tracks to upload here soon.
As A & R for New Rose Records Joe Viglione signed Willie Loco Alexander in 1980 and New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders’ IN COLD BLOOD album, produced by Jimmy Miller.
Joe became Milleri’s exclusive representative and business partner co-producing Buddy Guy with Jimmy including sessions with Nils Lofgren, Genya Ravan, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, Joe Petruzelli and others.
Joe has worked with Randy California and SPIRIT (“I Got a Line on You”), Spanky and Our Gang, engineer Dinky Dawson, Ian Lloyd and Stoires, Gary DeCarlo’s Steam, and many other classic rock and rollers, issuing the “Versace” single for Marty Balin, promoting Spanky & Our Gag’s Back Home Americana, Ian Lloyd’s O-de-Po, editing Spirit’s “Compromise”, promoting MCA artist Evangeline, Alvin Lee with George Harrison and Jon Lord, Rusty Kershaw with Neil Young, John Mooney with Ivan Neville and many, many others.
As founder of Boston’s original rock label, Varulven Records, Joe is one of the pioneers of the Boston “New Wave Scene”, having performed a record 49 times at the Paradise Theagter, opening for Peter Noone and The Tremblers (1980), Black Flag, Pat Travers, Stiv Bators’ Lords of the New Church.
Jodie Foster and Gilbert Gottfried on Visual Radio
images Copyright (C)2013 Joe Viglione Archives, all rights reserved
As a television host and radio producer (thus “Visual Radio”) Joe has interviewed over 1,000 personalities including Jodie Foster, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, Michael Moore, Robert Zemeckis, Jon Cena, Dennis Lehane, Bill Press of Sirius Satellite Radio, Bobby Hebb, Moulty of The Barbarians, the G Clefs, Danny Klein of the J. Geils Band, Felix Cavaliere of the Rascals, Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad, John Densmore of The Doors, Robbie Krieger of The Doors, Adrian Perry of Dead Boots (formerly TAB), Mick Taylor of The Rolling Stones, Denny Dias of Steely Dan, Lou Reed of The Velvet Underground, John Cale of The Velvet Underground, Suzanne Vega, Ian Hunter of Mott The Hoople, Steve Holley of McCarney’s Wings/Elton John, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, Gary Brooker of Procol Harum and hundreds and hundreds of other wonderful individuals who were generous enough to grant us their time and insight.
PROUD SOUL HERITAGE THE BOBBY HEBB / SUNNY ANTHOLOGY VOL. 1
Joe is the producer of the upcoming boxed set PROUD SOUL HERITAGE: The Bobby Hebb / Sunny Anthology Vol. 1. A 4 disc compilation with liner notes authorized by Bobby’s manager and estate.
THE BIRDS RETURN From the film The Salt Water Summers; music by Buzzy Linhart
Joe Viglione won an award for his 60 second film THE BIRDS RETURN funded in part by TV3 Medford. The interesting thing is that Joe Viglione is the leader spearheading the movement to clean up TV3 in Medford, the public access station. The station is engaged in harassing former members, which we find unacceptable. In the most sublime bit of poetic justice, the individuals who have censored the residents of Medford had to pay the fellow fighting for citizens’ rights. Watch the video here http://www.madeinmedford.com/recreation/detail/joe-viglione-wins-film-award-with-the-bi?blockID=543875
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Rob Gronkowski of N.E. Patriots, Bob Hyldburgh and Joe Viglione / Ray Manzarek
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Gallagher and Joe Viglione
Burton Coummings and Joe Viglione
Joe in his Dracula cape his Nana created for him wearing the 1973 cape in 2012
Jeanne Archibald photo of Joe Viglione with cape in Somerville 1976
LIFESWORK – Joe Viglione Publishing CD
First LP “I’m A Star” by The Count on Flamingo/Carrere Records 1978 ________________________________________________________
The original “Another View” EP with Moe Tucker & Joe Viglione
Love and Flame, Joe’s second release in Paris, France The Intuition Element – Joe Viglione produced by Jimmy Miller New Changes – the 4th Count LP Produced by Joe Viglione
Joe Viglione organized and co-produced The Best Of Willie Alexander for New Rose Records remastering “Mass. Ave.”, “Kerouac”, “Hit Her Wid De Axe” and “You Looked So Pretty When” as the master tapes were in North Carolina with the late Stephan Lovelace, the original producer. Engineer Karen Kane worked on the project with me at Howie Cook’s Euphoria Sound
Joe Viglione talks to Rolling Stones / Bob Dylan guitarist Mick Taylor in Boston before a show. Taped for Visual Radio.
____________________________________________________ BOSTON GLOBE ARTICLE: LANDING BIG NAMES Feb 1, 2004
Cable television host Joseph Viglione launched his Visual Radio Television show nine years ago in Woburn. He has lined up some pretty impressive interviews along the way, which number 300 now and have aired in many local towns. Virgin Airlines founder Richard Branson , singers Judy Collins and Suzanne Vega , performance artist Laurie Anderson , ”Mystic River” author Dennis Lehane http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/02/01/landing_big_names/
BOSTON GLOBE ARTICLE, PART 2, November 2008
‘Visual Radio’ founder started early
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Joe Viglione of Medford was just 15 years old in 1969 when he produced his first issue of Varulven, a fan magazine featuring interviews and film and music reviews. A collector of 8mm science fiction and fantasy films, Viglione was also an aspiring filmmaker and musician whose original songs first aired on WBCN-FM when he was 17.
While his magazine is no longer in production, Viglione has since founded a record label by the same name, worked as a radio station programming director, and continued writing about films and the Boston music scene. Locally, however, Viglione may be best known for his public access television show, “Visual Radio,” which is broadcast in 18 towns including Hamilton, Malden, Salem, Wenham, and Winthrop. A weekly segment airs in Manhattan.
Since launching “Visual Radio” in 1995, Viglione has produced more than 400 shows featuring interviews, concerts, and lectures by local authors, politicians, and community activists.
There are tons of reviews in the All Music Guide to Country.
Joe’s name is also in All Music Guide, All Music Guide to Electronica, I have not researched to see what review may (or may not) be in Electronica, All Music Guide to Jazz and All Music Guide itself, suffice it to say that I’ve written about 5,000 biographies, book reviews, DVD reviews, film reviews, CD reviews, song reviews as well as a Suzanne Vega interview for Rovi/AllMusic.com from 2000 – 2009.
_____________________________________________________ Joe wrote the Foreword to Peter Noone’s photo book on Herman’s Hermits
Peter Noone on Visual Radio. Joe Viglione opened for Noone’s band, THE TREMBLERS at the PARADISE THEATER in 1980. Around 2011 Joe wrote the foreword to Peter Noone’s book http://peternoone.com/store/
Joe Viglione was A & R for New Rose Records and brought these two discs by The Saints and the Trogss to Atlantic Records, Arista Records, A & M and other labels in NY in 1992.
As a performer Joe Vig has the world’s record for performances at the Paradise Theater in Boston, 49!
Joe has played Great Woods, the Rathskellar, the Club in Cambridge, Cantones, Jack’s, Jaspers, Jumbos, Geno’s in Portland Maine, The Cantab Downstairs (1974), Club Bohemia (The Cantab Downstairs) 2012 and dozens of venues with hundreds and hundreds of performances. A seasoned veteran of stage, the recording studio and television, Joe has produced dozens of recording artists including the rare Unnatural Axe EP which was re-released on Rhino/Atlantic as DIY MASS AVE
Joe’s own THE GUITARMASTER was the Record of the Year in 1978 (The Real Paper), and he was one of the first Boston area artists to get a half page spread in the prestigious CREEM Magazine (on the same page as The Who); was cited as one of the FIVE BEST BANDS in BOSTON by Playboy Magazine, noted as having the Record of the Month in L’Attendant Magazine (Belgium), called “By far the best record of the month” in Phonograph Records Magazine (America), he has written an op-ed for Billboard Magazine, with articles in Goldmine, Discoveries, Radioworld, Replication News, Medialine, The Music Producer’s Journal (a Wayne Green publication), Musician’s Magazine Boston, Arts Media Magazine, Gemmzine, Artscope (edited the very first issue as well), The Beat, Fffanzeen, Preview, the Improper Bostonian, the Boston Globe, the Real Paper, hired to help out with the very first Boston Band Guide in the Boston Phoenix (1982 or so), and is currently the chief film critic at TMR Zoo as well as writing for the U.K. zine Sabotage Times.
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New Joe Viglione review of “Sunny” by Toots and the Maytals July 21, 2013 4:22 PM
This two minute and fifty-four second rendition of Bobby Hebb’s “Sunny” is jam-packed with rock, reggae and a splashy psychedelic guitar, imagine Sly and the Family Stone in slow motion with a thought-provoking vocal and solid groove. The mix is terrific, swirling textures under a soulful lead vocal that brings this song into a wonderful new dimension. With over 1400 recorded (and YouTube) performances it is amazing that Hebb’s masterpiece continues to find new flavorings and vibrations. The solid drumbeat here allows the backing vocals and rising instrumentation to weave an entirely new chapter for this familiar melody. Captivating is the only way to describe it.
The Unnatural Axe went into Mission Control Studios in Westford, August 14, 1988.
There are four songs on 24 track 2″ tape – a new version of “They Saved Hitler’s Brain” as well as The Mighty Ions classic “Big Noise” and two other titles.
While we taped the 4 multi-tracks THE AXE also recorded a bunch of music as if it were a live broadcast, running through the set quickly and efficiently. That is recorded through the 24 track SSL board and onto DAT tape. That is the Live album that will be released.
You can hear 30 seconds of “Tonight We Fight” from Boston Rock & Roll Anthology 14 here: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:3xfyxqu0ldke Janis has covered Boston arts and events since 1972. In addition to this column, Hotline To The Underground, she is a freelance columnist for the likes of Bill Taylor’s Musician’s Magazine, The Auguste Pages, Ron Bellanti’s Preview Magazine, Outlet Magazine (U.K.), Prize magazine (Los Angeles), Ron Bellanti’s ROCKWATCH, New England Entertainment Digest, The Beat, The Real Paper (now The Phoenix) and too many other rags to remember.