Category: Music
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A quirky mix
Better than coffee Walking into the studio this Monday morning, there’s a pine fresh scent and my desk looks orderly. My mom’s been here. A pile of things that require my signature and bills are on my desk, along with an envelope from Madison Wisconsin. A CD mix inside. I popped it in the stereo…
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Queen City Balladeers 40th Anniversary Reunion and Hootenanny
Michael Sylvester with the River City String Band The folk music get together was held at the Old St. George Center next to campus. A converted church, it serves multiple community purposes now. It’s a pretty fantastic building, and the evening light coming through the stained glass lent a warm glow to the evening. This…
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Wanna grow, up to be, be a debaser
I don’t believe it when MTV says the Pixies are going to reunite, even if MTV says so. I ♥ The Pixies.
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The Sidemen
The Parade was just the beginning… Super heavy rains fell as the parade let out. Hail even. Jen and Shep were having a party thrown in their honor and it had just started across town. Actually, out in the boonies a little bit. I had no idea what to expect, other than I would see…
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Madonna’s rapping and voice tweaking on her new album is a lot like jar jar binks in those star wars movies… i’d love to have a version with em cut out. oh yeh, and what’s with that whole “I gotchoo under my skin” repeatin all over during a fairly good song. Homage? Methinks not.
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Hooky
The first time I met Tom, we ate at a Deli with big hunks of bread and chatted about music. A mutual friend said we’d get along, and he was right. Years later, we still talk about music. Getting into the work-mode today was tough. It was likely one of the nicest days of the…
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Music Memories
What was the first record you owned? 1st Record: The Disney Dumbo read-along storybook with 45. 1st Tape: Violent Femmes “debut” 1st CD: Prince “Sign o the Times” and The Smiths “Louder than Bombs” (I thought i was getting the maximum amount of music for my intial CD dollars) Is there a song that reminds…
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Mixed evening
So I started the evening off meeting up with Dave at the Northside Tavern. Listed as a ‘folk’ band, Jake Speed and the Freddies were more what i’d term bluegrass. Great vibe and interaction with the crowd. Never been to that place before. It was awash in hip folks with Beatlesesque hairdos and funky european…