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The Office in Nyack (Legendary Jazz Club)
Jaco Pastorius My hometown of Nyack, NY has some serious musical bones. Most nights you can hear live music (usually very good live music) pouring from a half dozen barroom doors. In my younger days, Cheers was a big live rock band music club…as well as Blondies (aka Saints and Scholars, Knuckleheads), which is now… Read more
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Lana Del Rey Changes Name and Voice to Become Today’s Sultry Singer
Did you know Lana Del Rey (website) was known as May Jailer and sung with her natural higher pitched voice? Elizabeth Woolridge Grant has performed under a variety of names before striking a chord with hipster nation as deep voiced Lana Del Rey. She was Sparkle Jump Rope Queen, before that was Lizzy Grant, before that… Read more
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The Wall’s “Pink” Bob Geldof Hated Pink Floyd and They Hated Them
I always found it peculiar that Boomtown Rats Bob Geldof stared as “Pink” in Pink Floyd’s “The Wall.” He was great in the part and I can’t image anyone else standing there with shaved off eyebrows and screaming like he did. What I found out recently, Geldof hated Pink Floyd’s music and the band hated… Read more
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“She’s The One” Soundtrack Named to TBR’s Desert Island Album list!
Almost two years ago (105 weeks actually), I rambled on about Magnolia Electric Co.’s “Trials and Errors” album. (Click here for that story.) I still love the album and am lured into its clutches (10 songs) every time I hear one of its songs. Some fellow Rancheleros (followers of the Thunderbird Ranch Ramble bus) that… Read more
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Kings Theatre Opens on Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn
In April, Widespread Panic will play the newly renovated ($95M worth of renovations to be exact) Kings Theatre on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. Like many of these old left to die theaters in the NYC area, 86 years ago the Kings Theatre was the center of the community. On Feb 3, Diana Ross will open the… Read more
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Festival on the Niger in Mali
The musical group — Amanar (photo by Ben Solomon for NYT) Reading the Sunday New York Times is always a treat, especially when I have the right setting in which to read and enjoy it. Depending on the time of day I sit to enjoy the paper, the details change, but typically it involves… Read more
