Music
This Charming Man: Roddy Frame in 1984
I would never buy a compact disc player. In the annals of poor predictions, the above statement is probably not up there with Morrissey’s insistence that “we really want to...
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November 6, 2013
Up and coming Events
Over the coming few weeks, I will be making the following public/media appearances. WEDNESDAY MARCH 27 ALL HOPPED UP (AND READY TO GO): Monthly music and talk show on WGXC Radio, 90.7...
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March 25, 2013
The Hip-Hugger: Booker T. Jones in Woodstock
Last year, for our annual concert by The Catskill 45s, I figured it was time for me to finally lead a song on the Hammond B3, given that we are...
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March 14, 2013
Tony Fletcher’s All Hopped Up (and Ready To Go)
On Wednesday February 27, I launched a monthly radio show, Tony Fletcher’s All Hopped Up (and Ready To Go) on WGXC, “hands-on radio” for NY’s Columbia and Greene Counties at...
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March 6, 2013
This is Radio Fletch
On Friday December 14, a day that will otherwise go down in American infamy, I played guest DJ on WGXC, a ‘hands-on radio’ station that serves Columbia and Greene Counties...
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January 29, 2013
It Was Thirty Year Ago Today: The Jam’s Last Stand.
Last Saturday, December 8, someone tweeted me to observe that it was thirty years to the day since they had seen my old band, Apocalypse, open for the Jam at...
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December 11, 2012
Eight Track Cartridges: A museum opens in Roxbury
During our family’s recent road trip across America, I made a point of visiting music museums, from Memphis to Kansas City to Cleveland. I hadn’t expected to return home to...
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October 15, 2012
Thick As Thieves: Jam fans tell their story
Two years back, while in Britain on a lengthy research trip for my Smiths biography, I went to Brighton for a Paul Weller concert (my first time seeing the Modfather...
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September 25, 2012
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