When I was 14, I had only started to discover "good music".As a child, I always liked Oldies Music and Classic Rock. I had my radio on the local...
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Read Suzanne Vega's post today in the New York Times See http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/profane-and-divine/It sparked my own memory of...
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It would have been a Saturday just like any other, and I was looking for something different to do.  Since I hadn't been there in a while, i decided that...
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I’ve had several false starts with this one.  Strange how a song can leave you spinning.  Yes, the 90s were a 60s renaissance of sorts that I may in fact...
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In 7th grade, my music teacher was the coolest. I've written about her in a previous post called "Speak to Me". What prompted this memory was...
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Freaky. I just saw the "Hair" post by Stephen and it sparked my own memory about the musical. But a bit different. It was Spring 1979, and like...
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Chicago's Aragon Ballroom welcomed a young, sexy Colombian woman to its stage on April 18, 1997. A sold out show of 5,000 turned out to cheer the then up and...
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In 1996 I moved into one of the dumpiest three bedroom apartments imaginable with three other guys. The place was above a gay strip club called Madrigals -...
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I know I'm going to get a lot of crap for admitting this. This isn't about some hip band memory from some wild night; or how I saw someone play at some venue...
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Tomorrow is the birthday of Voltaire who said "Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle is excellent." Here's a music memory of France....
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There's been some chatter on the JamsBio blog about opera, well...it's time to talk about a serious opera, one of the best of all time. On May 23rd, 1969 The...
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Come back with me to the Fall of 1981, when I was in High School hanging with a bunch of friends in an apartment. The TV came on and someone said, check out...
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