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When Great Art Happens By Bad People 27 Aug 2013 | 02:19 pm
This is a very sad story, so please -- try not to laugh. Okay, so a while ago (possibly a year or two) I was hanging out over at a certain political blog I frequent (whose name I won't mention, but i...
Not the Just The Greatest Thing From Carteret New Jersey Ever! 26 Aug 2013 | 09:59 pm
And speaking, as we were last Friday, of The Smithereens -- or more specifically, as one esteemed regular was speaking about how he had remained blissfully unaware of their work, for whatever reason. ...
Your Friday Moment of Self-Congratulatory Ego Tripping (An Occasional Series) 23 Aug 2013 | 05:31 pm
Long time and/or attentive readers (not to mention members of my immediate family) may be aware that Floor Your Love, the vanity CD I compiled by my early 80s skinny-tie band The Floor Models, has, pe...
Yes, We Have No Bananas! 22 Aug 2013 | 05:40 pm
My old college chum Tony Jannelli -- and it was he you should be thanking for yesterday's Springsteen video -- passed this poster along to me the other day. It's from a 1965 rock show he attended at h...
Your Wednesday Moment of Hole E. Shit (An Occasional Series) 21 Aug 2013 | 09:21 am
From sometime in 1973 or 1974, please behold in breathless wonder Bruce Springsteen and (the original) E-Street Band -- with, unless I am very much mistaken, Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez on drums and David Sa...
Clinton Heylin is a Big Fat Idiot 20 Aug 2013 | 09:07 am
So I picked up a copy of Brit rock scribe Clinton Heylin's history of the bootleg album biz (largely due to recommendations by a couple of folks here) the other day, with some trepidation. I say trep...
Closed For a Hangover 20 Aug 2013 | 12:15 am
No posting today, due to a necessary period of decompression after yesterday's 3rd annual C.W. Post (mostly theater department) College reunion, which if memory serves -- and if it does, I hope it was...
Chris Collingwood Explains It All 18 Aug 2013 | 10:20 pm
I'm always tickled when one of my heroes makes the NYTimes. Here's a great column by Chris Collingwood on songwriting. Often I’ll gussy up something real until it isn’t. This is true of “Amity Garde...
Hey, I'm so Macho That When I Have Muscle Aches I Use Ben-Butch!!! 16 Aug 2013 | 06:48 pm
I got yer Shoes huevos right here, pal. "Your Devotion," my pretty much all-time fave Shoes tune rendered absolutely live, from the Fret Buzz album. Wimpy? I don't think so. And that guitar solo, wh...
Thursday Book Club: Special Shoes for Industry Edition 15 Aug 2013 | 12:17 pm
As you may have heard, the proprietor of this here blog has written a quite brilliant rock-band bio of Shoes. I was lucky enough to make a small contribution to it, and here -- with Mary's permission...
