Reading between the Grooves

One man's view of music - past, present, and future.
A look at recordings and music from many genres
from the Mad Doctor of Musical Mayhem

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Geffen Records: Ways To Be Wicked

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Our final look at Geffen Records takes us back to 1985 self-titled album by the cowpunk band Lone Justice. I remember listening to the cass...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Geffen Records: Here Comes The Feeling

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The band Asia might be best known as a “super group” of the second generation prog rock bands. Asia was a synthesis of key players from Yes...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Geffen Records: A Million Miles Away

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Although formed in 1978 and having recorded for two nationally distributed labels (Planet and Geffen), the band would only have one near mis...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Geffen Records: (Just Like) Starting Over

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Everything seemed to be going right for John Lennon and Yoko Ono during the fall of 1980. While John had taken off five years from the musi...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Geffen Records: Planet P Twofer

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Day Three of our look at Geffen Records bring about a twofer from the Planet P Project. The brainchild of Tony Carey, Planet P was an exper...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Geffen Records: In Your Eyes

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Probably the best concert I’ve seen was Peter Gabriel and Genesis in November 1974 with the “Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” tour at Pittsburgh’...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Geffen Records: Harden My Heart

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It’s the fourth week of the month and as always, I feature selections from a particular record label for seven days. I was contemplating wh...
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Jim Owston
Associate Provost and Professor of Mass Communication at Alderson Broaddus University and an adjunct faculty member at Southern New Hampshire University.

Graduate of Marshall University, West Virginia University, Southern New Hampshire University, Kentucky Christian University and Mountain State University.

Dissertation on institutional rebranding (see newriver.net) was the 2009 international winner of the Alice L. Beeman Dissertation Award for Outstanding Research in Communications and Marketing for Higher Education Advancement and was the 2008 Leo and Margaret Goodman-Malamuth Outstanding Dissertation Award for Research in Higher Education Administration.

Placed as a winner in five Active Industry Research Contemporary Hit Radio "Pick the Hits" competitions from 1983 through 1987. Each competition had 31 winners. Placed 2nd (1st among radio participants), 6th, 10th (twice), and 21st in the five competitions.

Awarded 14 gold & platinum records and an international sales award from various record companies. Winner of 30 Public Relations awards.
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