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Okay, don’t do this. We see all and know half of it, and if you go shady, we’ll tell our local priest, and you’ll get a stern lecture. But it’s out there, and so are we, and here we all are. As a crime writer, I’m always looking to describe people doing, yes, shady s**t, […]
Nirvana reissue. Reissues are cool. We cover them because usually the band was someone kickass, and the original album, while great, was “lightning in a bottle.” And a lot of times, it was subject to studio pressures. I’m not talking about that 80s big band that reissued their fourteenth album just to scrape up a […]
New York City. The Big Apple that never sleeps. But if you get bored with all that awake-time, you might just find yourself engaging in the newest form of NY tourism; NY rat tours. Yes. Rat tourism. Apparently there are rat enthusiasts in the world, and as most New Yorkers know, there are enough rats […]
Remember that song, “Tainted Love?” I dug that song when it came out. It was one of those songs that put you in a mood. If I wasn’t five when it came out, it might have been a different mood, but the only moods I had mastered was coloring in the lines and getting the […]
Social Media Scams You’re locked out. Sweat starts to bead up on your face and the heat starts rising past your cheeks to your forehead. Your whole universe of thousands of friends and acquaintances are in the hands of someone or something that just took advantage of your wonder and your curiosity. And now you […]
He stared into a cup of coffee that he hoped would be bottomless. His whole musical career lay at the bottom of the dregs. All the money he had from his overnight success poured away from a carafe with sweet cream and just a touch of sugar. His royalty check from the thousands of fans […]
The road. We’ve all been on it. By bus, by car, by RV or semi. We have all travelled the highways and byways in one form or another. There’s nothing like a road trip to bond a group of friends, and there’s nothing like a long drive to clear your head. In the world of […]
Neanderthal Music. Imagine the day, it had to be some day or some night, somewhere, an early one of our ancestors, maybe a neanderthal, of homo heidelbergensis possessed the ability to shape their voice in such a way as to make the people in their cave feel happy, or marvel. Or maybe it was a […]
In the mid-sixties, Bobby Fuller was living the dream as far as rock n’ roll dreams go. He had a record riding high in the national charts. He and his group “The Bobby Fuller Four” were in high demand on the Sunset Strip scene in L.A. and were appearing regularly as the house band on […]
Playing for Exposure – Yea or Nay? She dug in her pockets; last five bucks. Between gas and food and the neck repair on her sweet ’64 Fender Stratocaster, she was broke. They were broke. It was cheese-sandwich city, and they were about to play four hours for “exposure,” that corporate-sounding euphemism for “free… but […]
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