Greg Adams (writer)
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Greg Adams ran the independent reissue record label Beehive Rebellion Records before writing for the All-Music Guide and various reissue record labels. Beehive Rebellion issued two releases in the 1990s: a reissue of the New Zealand band Electric Blood's previously cassette-only album Electric Easter (featuring Robert Scott
Robert Scott
- Military personnel :* Robert Falcon Scott , British Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer* Robert Lee Scott, Jr. , United States Air Force flying ace in World War II...
of the Bats
The Bats
The Bats are an influential New Zealand rock band formed in 1982 in Christchurch by Paul Kean , Malcolm Grant , Robert Scott and Kaye Woodward...
) and a reissue of Sex Clark Five
Sex Clark Five
Sex Clark Five is an underground indie rock band formed in the early 1980s in Huntsville, Alabama. Calling their inventive, sawed-off power pop songs "strum and drum" , SC5 released several albums that featured the jangly Rickenbacker guitar sound characteristic of Southern college rock bands of...
's Strum & Drum! that contained the band's complete self-released Records to Russia recordings . The latter was ranked by Goldmine
Goldmine
Goldmine may refer to:* Gold mining, the extraction of gold, usually from rock or sediment* Gold Mine , a tile-laying board game* Goldmine , a music collectables magazine* GoldMine, a customer relationship management software package...
magazine as one of the 50 best U.S. power pop albums of all time . A proposed third release, a reissue of the Electric Blood cassettes Acoustic Splendour and Actual Music, to be titled The Man Who Tasted Shapes, never materialized.
Adams wrote over 1,000 album reviews and artist biographies for AMG and contributed to 10 books in the All-Music Guide series in addition to writing liner notes for and/or producing over 60 releases on record labels such as Bear Family, Collectors' Choice Music
Collectors' Choice Music
Collectors' Choice Music is a company primarily in two businesses. They are best known for re-issuing albums originally recorded in LP record form as compact discs...
, ERIC Records, Omni Recording Company, Bloodshot Revival, Soundies, Hit Parade, and Complete 60s. From 2000-2008 he hosted Rhythm Ranch, a thematic oldies radio program on WFHB
WFHB
WFHB 91.3 FM is a community radio FM station in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. The station has three translators serving southern Indiana: 98.1 in Bloomington, 100.7 in Nashville and 106.3 in Ellettsville....
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