The Dark Elf File

A journal dedicated to great music and literature, with occasional snide asides, acerbic alliteration and polemical punditry.

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Favorite Songs From My Childhood: A Musical Reverie

Many of you may have read previously that my first concert was Alice Cooper in 1972. I was twelve years old at the time, and was visiting my...

Saturday, September 2, 2017

Kings of the Sleaze: The Nastiest Rock Guitar Riffs, Licks and Leads of the 1960s and 1970s

It is fashionable on music forums, particularly those of a progressive ilk, to discuss guitar tone, and by proper tone the usual inference r...

Friday, August 18, 2017

Era Enders: How the Psychedelic 60s Became the Hard Rock (or Punk Rock, Prog Rock, Country Rock, Soft Rock, etc.) of the 1970s

The year 1969 was a crossroads. The Beatles all but ceased to be a band on August 20, 1969, the last day of recording for Abbey Road (the fo...

Sunday, July 30, 2017

Twenty-Five Essential Blues Albums - A Primer For Budding Blues Fans On A Budget

Let's say you just started listening to blues music, and you enjoy the genre, but you're not quite sure where to turn next. Maybe yo...

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Morthoron the Dark Elf: Curmudgeonly, contentious and correct (more times than not), the 'Dark Elf' is a writer, composer and musician well-known on many sites and forums across the World Wide Web,and the decidely odd,Tolkienesque pseudonym 'Morthoron the Dark Elf' has been in use since the Dark Ages of the Internet (the last decade of the 20th century).

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