A stalwart with Kenny Loggins and Don Felder, Shem von Schroeck has one lasting goal: He hopes to be Toto’s “last bass player.”

As the Blue Sky Riders kick off a new summer tour on Thursday, they gathered to talk a little — and laugh a lot. You May Also Like: Solitaire Miles, “Ghost Riders in the Sky” from ‘Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas’ (2015) Wilco’s ‘Sky Blue Sky’ Was a RareRead More

Operating out of Alhambra, California, the Second Helping signed on the dotted line with the local Viva label, where they issued three singles during their livelihood. You May Also Like: Jeff Coffey, “This Is It” from ‘Origins: Singers and Songs that Made Me’ (2020): One Track Mind Toto bassist ShemRead More

Never in a million years would anyone guess the lead singer of this gritty and gutsy single is Kenny Loggins. Sounding like a remarkable cross-pollination of the Standells, the Pretty Things and the Shadows of Knight You May Also Like: Fortunato Isgro, “Good Times Bad Times” from Journey (2016): OneRead More

By Nick DeRiso “Two Of Us,” the old Beatles album cut, is reborn — as is a long-ago relationship — in the hands of this pair of early 1970s-era country-rock stars. Part of a new Disney children’s album “All Join In,” the tune is actually one of two by theRead More

by Pico Ever had a song that you enjoyed listening to when it first came out, then moved on and forgot about it only to have some event trigger the memory of that song many years later? Such was the case for me with a thirty year old deep cutRead More

It should probably be no surprise to anyone who is remotely familiar with us, but we here at Something Else! are not what you’d call avid watchers of MTV. Evidently, neither is Crosby Loggins; he was asked to be a contestant on their show Rock The Cradle three of fourRead More