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Remembering the Summer of Love, 50 Years After

mmandato — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:21:59 +0000

50 years after the Summer of Love, Been Fong-Torres discusses the "San Francisco Sound" and the revolutionary attitude that propelled artists like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane to fame.

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Remembering Ray Manzarek

lmassa — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 18:32:42 +0000

Ray Manzarek told me that he was dying. He had an incurable disease, he said in an email dated April 2nd. “I’m hoping that was a belated April Fools joke,” I replied.

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The Dead at the End of ‘So Many Roads’

mmandato — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:45:14 +0000

It’s not a sexy, round-number anniversary, but I bet Deadheads know that July 9 was the date of the last Grateful Dead concert with Jerry Garcia. That was in 1995, at Soldier Field in Chicago. With the surviving Dead having celebrated a 50th anniversary with a farewell tour—and then a return of most of them, as Dead & Company—they continue to be in the news.

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Paul McCartney: Good Evening New York City

lmassa — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:49:56 +0000

Call it a Maccathon.

Whenever Paul McCartney does a concert these days, he’s in for the long haul, and the haul includes five decades of iconic hits, discoveries of other worthy tunes, and massive doses of charm.

McCartney likes to perform, and he aims to please.

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Paul McCartney – Live at Knebworth, 1990

jperron — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:12:52 +0000

Think Paul McCartney’s a medical and musical phenomenon, performing at full-tilt, these days and nights, at age 71?

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Discover The Doors at the Bowl: Mick, LSD and a Moth

lmassa — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 20:36:51 +0000

To play the Hollywood Bowl. For any musician, that has to be a career highlight. The Doors performed in that revered venue in 1968, and Ray Manzarek, in his interview for Qello Concerts, articulated the import of such an occasion.

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John Fogerty: Live at Soundstage

jperron — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:43:52 +0000

There are rockers, and there are rock ‘n’ rollers. John Fogerty is one of the few major musicians who can claim to be both, bridging the guitar-driven, band-based rock of the late ‘60s and ‘70s with the R&B and country-rooted rock and roll—think Little Richard and Elvis—of the ‘50s into the ‘60s.

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The Gift of Dad Rock | Father’s Day

jperron — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:15:59 +0000

Dad-bod, dad jeans, dad rock.
These are most definitely not flattering terms. They signify the opposite of cool. Or even worse, the idea of an unhip man past his prime trying embarrassingly hard to be cool.

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