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GIVING IT ALL AWAY
A Rough Draft Outline for a Screenplay by Ric Hickey and Chris Wanstrath * (The authors recommend you play the attached YouTube links...
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Nov 5, 20213 min read
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COUNTRY BOY
I came up with this riff in drop-D tuning on my Dad's old Martin acoustic guitar when I was living in San Diego back in 2012. I was...
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Oct 29, 20212 min read
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BRIEF ENCOUNTER: Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden
January 3, 1985 I saw Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson emerge from a taxi behind the Cincinnati Gardens dressed uncannily like...
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Oct 25, 20211 min read
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RAIN OF TERROR: Rooftop Shenanigans Three Decades Ago
What the hell we were doing up on the roof in the first place, I don’t know. But we had a small folding table, several lawn chairs, a...
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Oct 22, 20214 min read
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BRIEF ENCOUNTER: Mike Peters from The Alarm
March 18, 1986 – I met Mike Peters and a couple other guys from the Alarm one afternoon 30 years ago. They stopped by Record Bar in...
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Oct 19, 20211 min read
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We Three Go Where We Three Go
We three go where we three go, Even if it's uphill both ways. Walkin' barefoot backward in the snow, We three go where we three go....
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Oct 15, 20211 min read
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Stadium
My old friend Russell and I saw Bob Dylan open for the Grateful Dead at Giants Stadium back in June of 1995. Living in the East Village...
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Oct 8, 20215 min read
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Chicken Butts and Monkey Nuggets
Maybe we are just monkeys and after 700 years with 700 typewriters one of us turned out to be Shakespeare. Every possible universe is an...
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Oct 1, 20211 min read
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Been A Long Time
My old band Sparrow Bellows had an outdoor gig that was rained out in October 2012. Sitting by myself that evening in the basement bar of...
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Sep 24, 20212 min read
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1987
This is an excerpt from a much longer piece in progress called The Timeline Project, essentially a detailed year-by-year list of concerts...
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Sep 17, 20213 min read
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INNER STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE
A Self Improvement and Soul Preservation Course Embedded in the Iconography and Symbology in the Lyrics of 14 Songs by Iggy Pop All...
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Sep 8, 20212 min read
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Shining and Howling at the Drive-In
Vivid still and crystal clear as if it were only yesterday, a random memory from childhood returned to me recently: My Dad once took me...
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Sep 3, 20212 min read
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Bring On The Bumps
My grandfather Malcolm was a farmer. He was born and raised in rural Statesville, Tennessee (about 70 miles east of Nashville), where he...
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Aug 27, 20215 min read
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Only Iommi
A look back at the state of affairs in Black Sabbath in the late 80s, as seen through the lens of comic realism.* It's only Iommi It's...
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Aug 20, 20212 min read
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Sinister Systems and Foggy Streams
There never was any doubt I would be going out the same way my dad had and his dad had too. I would slowly lose my mind and have no idea...
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Aug 13, 20212 min read
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Pissed And Pious
Pissed and Pious sitting on a fence, Pious fell off and they became friends. Pissed was he who helped up Pious. Friends like these money...
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Aug 5, 20211 min read
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CONCESSIONS AND CAPITULATIONS: June 21, 1981 with Ted Nugent, Blackfoot and Krokus
In the spring of 1981 Ted Nugent launched a nationwide concert tour in support of his latest album Intensities In 10 Cities. Since 1974...
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Aug 1, 202114 min read
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DEEP PURPLE - Whoosh!
Released August 7, 2020 Even their biggest fans have to be surprised at just how good Deep Purple continues to be in 2021. One hopes that...
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Jul 10, 20212 min read
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Jun 9, 20211 min read
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