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Pariah Burke grew up banging his impressive head of hair to 80s and 90s hard rock, heavy metal, and hair band albums he played all the way through while wondering why even the coolest FM stations only ever played the singles. Living and playing in bands in Daytona Beach back when Bike Week was still awesome, Pariah developed a taste for Harleys and whiskey, and began DJing Bike Week events and mud wrestling. Later, somehow still in possession of his full hearing, Pariah embraced the ability of Internet radio to reach hard rock, heavy metal, and hair band fans all over the world. He started the Hard, Heavy and Hair with Pariah Burke radio show to bring to all those fans the biggest hits but even more so the non-single album tracks, the “deep cuts,” that make albums great but never get air play during regular radio rotation.

Rockin’ in the Days of Confusion revisits the golden age of FM rock radio (roughly the years 1968-76). It was the early 1970s, and things were changing. The Beatles had split up. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison were dead and gone. The issues that had united a generation of young Americans had evolved. Civil Rights, once a black and white issue, had expanded to include Latinos, Native Americans and other ethnic groups. New movements like Feminism and Gay Rights were beginning to become part of the zeitgeist, and would continue to gain ground over the years. The Vietnam War was finally over (along with a military draft that had disproportionately affected the economically disadvantaged), leaving the antiwar movement without an obvious target. In short, the early 70s were days of confusion for the generation that had grown up in tumultuous, yet oddly enough focused, 1960s.

The music of that generation was evolving as well, with new genres such as heavy metal and electronic rock taking their place alongside the folk-rock and psychedelic rock that had characterized the final years of the previous decade. Many rock musicians were looking to other disciplines such as jazz, classical and R&B for inspiration, giving rise to hybrid genres like fusion and art-rock. In short, the early 70s were days of confusion musically as well as socially.Rockin’ in the Days of Confusion emphasizes longer album tracks covering a variety of rock sub-genres, including hard rock, folk-rock, heavy metal, jazz-rock fusion, art-rock and more experimental tracks that defy easy classification.