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
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
MUCKRACK has links to some of my articles: https://muckrack.com/joe-viglione/articles
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
See the Secret Things / New Changes page http://joeviglione.com/?page_id=869
https://upliftshow.com/uplift-theme-song
Marty Balin Live on the Esplanade https://www.allmovie.com/movie/marty-balin-live-at-the-boston-esplanade-june-14-2008-v497887/cast-crew
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
Supplemental Hotline to the Underground below…
Supplemental Hotline to the Underground 10:56 pm EST 4/3/2020 —RIP Bucky Pizzarelli April 1, 2020 from COVID-19. Fresh Air with Terry Gross has a special on the loss of another legend: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/826643761/fresh-air-remembers-jazz-guitar-great-bucky-pizzarelli and – of course – we lost the great William C. “Buzzy” Linhart on February 13, 2020 …
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
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.
LIV and LIVINGSTON TAYLOR reviews on http://joeviglione.com/?page_id=113
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
TWITTER
http://twitter.com/joeviglione
FACEBOOK
https://www.facebook.com/JoeViglione
eBAY Reviews
On Sunday, July 21, 2013, there are 2,205 or so albums/cds with my words of wisdom, reviews etc. on eBay http://www.ebay.com/dsc/i.html?LH_TitleDesc=1&_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=joe+viglione&_pgn=10&_skc=450&rt=nc
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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
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DISCONNECT FILM DIRECTOR HENRY ALEX RUBIN WITH JOE VIGLIONE
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.
Article on Joe Viglione Cable Access Producer Of The Year, 2010/Winchester, MA
http://www.tmrzoo.com/2010/18336
The Official Visual Radio site
http://visual-radio.net.
Joe Viglione on LINKED IN
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joe-viglione/0/33a/848
THE OFFICIAL JOE VIGLIONE FACEBOOK
http://facebook.com/joeviglione
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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
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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.
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JOE VIGLIONE WINS AWARD / 60 SECOND FILM FESTIVAL
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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VISUAL RADIO GALLERY
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
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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
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New Rose Boxed Set pictured above includes myself, Willie Loco, Alex Chilton and dozens of others.
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Joe Viglione talks to Rolling Stones / Bob Dylan guitarist Mick Taylor in Boston before a show. Taped for Visual Radio.
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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
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.
To learn about Visual Radio, visit www.visual-radio.net.
CINDY CANTRELL
http://tinyurl.com/globenovember2008jv
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Joe has reviews published in these books
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.
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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/
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AS A & R MAN FOR NEW ROSE/RCA, NEW ROSE/MUSIDISC
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.
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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.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006MT74T8/ref=cm_cr_ryp_prd_img_sol_0
Websites of Note:
Larry Jaffee https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Writer/larry-jaffee
Paul Norman’s Uplift Show https://upliftshow.com/current-season
Ian Anderson / Jethro Tull http://jethrotull.com/
Anne Leighton https://anneleighton.com/
Jeff Mastroberti https://jeffland1.blogspot.com/
Lesley Palmiter Voice https://www.lesleypalmitervoice.com/
Matt O’Connor http://mattoconnor.blogspot.com/
Dean Petrella and the Complaints https://www.thecomplaints.com/
Unnatural Axe Music Museum of N.E. https://www.mmone.org/unnatural-axe/
Joe Viglione on AllMusic.com https://www.allmusic.com/artist/joe-viglione-mn0001340908/credits
Joe Viglione on DISCOGS.com https://www.discogs.com/artist/657563-Joseph-A-Viglione
Joe Viglione on Vampire Freaks . com http://joeviglionevampirefreaks.blogspot.com/2011/05/return-of-count.html
Joe Vig’s First Impressions http://joevigfirstimpressions.blogspot.com/2004/07/joe-vigs-first-impressions-tm.html?m=1
Blue Cheer Reviews http://pageonembm.blogspot.com/2010/01/dickie-peterson-blue-cheer.html
The Channel – Boston’s Best Rock Joe Viglione page
https://www.ebay.com/usr/pop_explosion?_trksid=p2047675.l2559
Joe Viglione wrote many reviews of artists that played the Channel and recorded for his Anthology albums. Checkout his Eighties blog
http://bostontheeighties.blogspot.com/2007/07/80s-boston-rock-roll.html
The Channel Boston’s Best Live Rock page http://www.bostonsbestliverock.com/?p=513
Tim Jackson’s website http://www.timjacksonweb.com/?fbclid=IwAR1PRvn1EloTzoXIADsY8Ggflcgd3nV3ymaN2o1SDKpmibyYlyGBaYr_Xpg
Fresh Air with Terry Gross – Anthony DeCurtis writes biography on Lou Reed https://freshairarchive.org/segments/biographer-sought-write-kind-book-lou-reed-deserved-0
SIRIUS XM with Genya Ravan: Genya escaped a WWII concentration camp as a child and came to America full of piss and vinegar. In the ’60s she formed the very FIRST all-girl band, Goldie & the Gingerbreads, signed by Ahmet Ertegun to Atlantic Records. She has since produced the Dead Boys, Tiny Tim and Kool & the Gang. https://m.siriusxm.com/servlet/Satellite?c=StreamJockey&childpagename=SXM/StreamJockey/MOB_HostDetail&cid=1158082434063&pagename=SXM/Wrapper
Janis Reed Ink http://janisreedink.blogspot.com/2007/07/hotline-to-underground_08.html
The Joe Vig Top 40 dot com http://joevigtop40.blogspot.com/2007/05/top-40-may-2007.html
Mark Snyder’s PMP Network http://www.pmpnetwork.com/ReviewsData/movies.htm
The Blacklisted Journal – Edited by Al Aronowitz http://www.blacklistedjournalist.com/1jvig.html
Peter Calo Dot Com https://petercalo.com/
Ace of Hearts Records https://aceofheartsrecords.com/
AllMusic.com https://www.allmusic.com/album/elevate-21-pop-and-indie-gems-from-the-underground-mw0001488573
MEET THE BEATLES FOR REAL http://www.meetthebeatlesforreal.com/2016/08/when-john-lubinski-met-beatles-in-boston.html
Fox Pass https://arlington.wickedlocal.com/article/20100715/NEWS/307159797
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