Joe Vig

Please check out our revitalized Varulven.com site: Varulven Records/P.O. Box 2392/Woburn, MA 01888 CD out in United Kingdom - ELEVATE featuring Joe Vig's THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A HIT!Joe Vig essays on Varulven.com - go DEEP into the rabbit hole More information and links on all sorts of things - ideas that will inspire... TO HEAR MY SONG "FRIEND(I WANT MY FRIEND)" go to THIS myspace Friend - I Want My Friend http://www.myspace.com/rsfield is our 1984 George Orwell friend as of May 8, 2008 at 4:31 PM. Welcome aboard RS Field! Les supporters de Pascal Mono our 1917th friend on Easter, early March 2008! Happy Easter everyone - and please check out my Top 40Joe Vig's MONTHLY Top 40Don't let MySpace/Tom's "warnings" intimidate you - get the best news on the counterculture on the Joe Vig Top 40! Easter Ramblings March 23, 2008I have a SAMSUNG DVD/VHS player that won't play all DVDs...so I get a SONY DVD player and put that atop the SAMSUNG and wire them together...but when you play a disc in the SONY the SAMSUNG shuts off after 59 minutes? ??? and you (or I, to be more specific) have to re-start it.So....I'm reviewing a Rolling Stones DVD for AMG - Under Review 1967-1969, part of a trilogy of DVDs from Chrome Dreams (the other two being Rolling Stones Under Review 62-66 and Keith Richards under review - you can see my reviews of those two on Allmusic.com right now) ...and just as the DVD is talking about the Stones dropping Brian Jones the machine shuts off and the Sci Fi Channel movie BLACK HOLE (2006 with Judd Nelson) said something about dropping a bomb without skipping a beat...as the Stones DVD stopped the Sci Fi movie appeared on the TV screen...Buzzy Linhart & I are writing a book about COINCIDENCES entitled Shaka Pifi!As for the Stones DVD - it's great.Robert Greenfield, a guest on my TV show Visual Radio, is interviewed at length on the Keith Richards Under ReviewAnd there is good commentary on Producer Jimmy Miller by Keith Altham who discusses the Brian Jones situation... merci beaucoup tout le monde Blue Tiger Street Team our 1700th Friend on 10-2-07 11 PM Thank You! 1596 friends, 5540 views as of 8/18/07, 1599 as of 8:34 PM, 1600 at 9:09 PM. Thanks so much! for reading this site. 5550 profile views, 1600 friends! We are honored. 1581 8/17/07 1569 friends 8/16/07 Elvis Presley Day 5484 profile views Hey, 1543 friends and 5400 Profile Views: as of 8/9/2007 - thank you everyone! hr 1562 friends as of 8/15 NEW STORY ON WILLIE LOCO ALEXANDER PUBLISHED 8/3/07Check out the video!Willie Loco Alexander in North Shore Sunday by Joe Vighttp://www.townonline.com/northshoresunday/homepage/x2251 15227By Joe Viglione GateHouse News Service New! Fri Aug 03, 2007, 01:43 PM EDTAs far as rock musicians go, Gloucester’s Willie “Loco” Alexander is not your usual suspect. When he walks through a door, you don’t have to clear a path for his ego. He’s not loud, he’s not showy and instead of asking if you know who he is, he’s a lot more likely to ask who you are. THE TRAFFICKER OF INFORMATION! Joe Vig's ongoing commentary on the Music Business in 2007Joe Vig essays on Varulven.comCheck in on Joe's biography page to read his philosophy!One of my favorite MATRIX sites with the great line from MerovingianMerovingian: ... I am a trafficker of information, I know everything I can. The question is, do you know why you are here?Morpheus: We are looking for the Keymaker.Prior PHOTO - Joe Vig with author Esther Wachs Book at The Harvard Coop on 9/25/00 Welcome to one of the most fun sites on MySpace - My Joe Vig Space, where you get to see my smiling face...eccentricities abound so have a good time checking out the hundreds of links... Dionne Warwick on YouTube! Someone is posting my reviews of her albums. Cool stuffYOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELING Dionne Warwick, You've Lost That Loving Feeling DO RIGHT WOMAN, DO RIGHT MANDionne Warwick, Do Right Woman, Do Right ManJune 7, 2007 - to watch Visual Radio number 369 click here:Visual RadioJuly 7, 2007We lost our little "Duffy" two years ago today, July 7, 05. I wrote a song for him "This Is A Song For Someone I Love" and was playing it on the phone for Bobby Hebb, so Duffy got to hear it one more time. This was around 5 in the afternoon. By 8:30 Duffy had a seizure and by 10:30 PM I was on the phone with Buzzy at the Hospital when the doctor said it was time. Very difficult night two years ago.Here's a cool page I found while searching for LIVE AT THE RAT SpectroPopIt's six days after the move - Varulven Records material safely stored in a new facility - far more organized and ready to rock. Stay tuned. May 24, 7:10 PM Apologies for not updating this page; lots going on, i've got a ton of writing to do and we're doing yet another tv show tomorrow....hey, where is Amo Gulinello performing next? How come there is only one movie title for him on the AllMovie.com guide?Well, I gotta get the mail out, go to the Kirkland, go to the gym...hmmmm...that routine will be changing right quick when The Kirkland is gone on May 28...new changes....time to change gyms, change nightclubs, change lovers. May 5th we said good-bye to our Jo Jo. I sometimes visit the place after going to WMWM Salem. She is resting there so I just take a right off the road and go by the spot. It is still hard to believe my close friend of 22 years is gone...Hey, it's spring! It's May 3! There was a BIG party last night at the Kowloon for Jo Jo Laine's uncle Ira Kaye. It was fantastic. Al Vega Trio performed (I think there was four of them, though, a four piece trio) and Heidi-Jo Hines played two songs. Lots of fun. Heidi - did you notice how Laine's friend bolted from my space! after my chat at dinner? Do you think it was something I said? I said that he looked like a cross between Don K and Joe M. Of course these days they look hideous but in their younger days they weren't bad looking, what was HIS problem? HA !Scared little bunny rabbits...oh well... Thanks to Joel Simches of WMFO 91.5 for playing three of my songs...found it on a MYSPACE playlist. Pretty cool. Tonight, Monday, February 12, 2007, I interviewed Steve Dexter, author of REAL ESTATE DEBT CAN MAKE YOU RICH, after the 60 minute interview the author wrote in my copy of the book: "To Joe - The Best Interviewer I Know" - Feb 12, 2007.Played at The Kirkland on January 5th with Boston Lonely, performing "Roadhouse Blues" (The Doors) tune, and earlier in the night teaching a Berklee band "Sister Ray".Hey, I'm doing my usual once a year gig on January 5. Well, maybe I'll play out more in 2007, maybe I won't. Haven't been onstage since performing "There's Nothing Like A Hit" with Fox Pass in July of 2006. I'm asking people what they think of my song "Transporter: Can't Wait To See You Smile" You can hear TRANSPORTER here: TransporterPlease request Visual Radio in your city:Visual RadioAsk me how you can find your Public Access station- make a request, I mail out the DVDshappy holidaysjoe vig VARULVEN RECORDS PRESENTS... FRIDAY JANUARY 5th VISUAL RADIO POST CHRISTMAS PARTY 11:30 PM BOSTON LONELY Boston Lonely 10:30 PM Go Yuki9:30 PM JUMP OFFS8:30 MARSHMELLOW from Springfield, MassachusettsMarshmellow Band8 PM The evening's M.C., Joe Vig Acoustic It's the Visual Radio Post Christmas party Visual RadioCome celebrate the Eve of Epiphany and hear music from the CD Life's Work performed live at 8 PM:LIFE'S WORK including the songs "The Salt Water Summers", "There's Nothing Like A Hit", "Whiskey Mama", "Reflect Love", Transporter and more!You can hear TRANSPORTER here:TransporterFrom the Rocklink Page:Joe Viglione Bio on Rocklink.comMay 22-June 26th Photo The photo of me on this site is from the TV show - Visual Radio - speaking with Amalie Rothschild - Hendrix photographer with her book on the FILLMORE EAST! Visual Radio webpageLots more on Visual Radio in the coming weeks. I spent this Memorial Day weekend watching the original Xmen 1 and XMen 2 on FOX, going to see XMEN twice and watching my VHS of XMen 1 again last night! Hey, the Cinema gives you a free movie with every sixth visit, so I used the free coupon (saved 9.25, cheapskate that I am) and thoroughly enjoyed the flick second time around. Tonight it is 11:07 PM on May 29, 2006. Updating MySpace and writing some new reviews this evening.To the left of this MySpace site you will find all the titles of my record albums released over the past 30 years, with links to their own MySpace sites. So here's my initial review of X MEN with more commentary on it to follow:James Marsden & Hugh Jackman in the sequel to Khan's Wrath on Brokeback Mountain - X-MEN DIVIDED BY LOVEMay 24, 2006 1:09 AM JIMI HENDRIX BOOK by Joe Viglione and Buzzy Linhart The Book is shaping up great!Hendrix Reviews If you've read my various reviews of Jimi's music on Allmusic.com you'll know of my admiration for his work. So tonight as Buzzy Linhart and I were working on our Hendrix book - polishing up the first chapter - zap - a ton of information evaporated into cyberspace. It really is upsetting - as Buzzy said - the material was "hot". Must be the revenge of Monika Danneman as I took her to task in the opening chapter. C'est la vie. Spent another hour fixing it up and it is sitting pretty again. Last year we allowed a Boston area publication to utilize a two part story from this forthcoming book.FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW: Buzzy played on "Drifting" from the albums "The Cry Of Love", "Voodoo Soup" and "First Rays of The New Rising Sun". Buzzy also is on a version of "Like A Rolling Stone" with Noel Redding, Hendrix and Al Kooper. That is on the LIFELINES 4 CD set. With this book we get to straighten out a lot of the errors found in many of the previous books written about Jimi by a variety of authors - and there are MANY previous books on Hendrix along with some new ones - other than ours - about to be published. It's a Hendrix world. JO JO ON FOLDBACK RECORDS:And with Jo Jo Laine's CD about to be released by Foldback Records we are working on the design for her book - FOXEY LADY: Jo Jo Laine tours the world with Wings, Ozzy Osbourne, Rod Stewart And The Gang. As the former wife of Denny Laine our Jo Jo got to see and hear many things - but the key to the book is how musical Jo Jo is - and her grasp of music history. It's an, ahem, intellectual book that is easy to read.http://jojolaine.blogspot.com/ FOXEY LADY: Jo Jo Laine On Tour with Wings, Ozzie Osbourne, Rod Stewart and more by Jo Jo Laine with Joe Viglione For the material that was posted up here during May 2006 go to Joe Viglione's Miscellaneous Writings for May 2006 - there are additions every monthOK to read Joe Viglione's fascinating Biography click on this area:THE BIO In 1969 at the age of 15 a young collector of 8mm science fiction/fantasy films, Joe Viglione, published Varulven Magazine in Arlington, Massachusetts... (If you really have to read it, click this blue section...Actually, you think what you are looking at is blue, but it is what the rest of us see as Red, except for my wife who sees it as psychedelic orange...Varulven site and read it there.)Better off reading my Top 40 for May which is actually my TOP 60 Click on the next area for the TOP 40 blogJoe Vig's Top 40 for May - it changes every monthYou can also find it on JoeViglione.com or Varulven.com if you go to MUSIC BUSINESS MONTHLY.1550 friends as of 4:47 PM August 11, 2007 5420 page views! 1523 August 7, 2007 Thank you everyone for being our friend! 1500 friends August 2, 2007