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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
Road Trip Reading and Listening
The one thing this Amazon widget can not include is the series of ‘Road Trip’ CDs a group of us made last year as part of a chain-mail make-your-own-mix CD...
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August 16, 2012
Summer Hitlist 1: The Olympics Opening Ceremony
Since the end of World War II and the Decline of Empire, Great Britain has been suffering from a severe identity crisis, a seemingly relentless and fruitless search for self...
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August 9, 2012
2012-45: The Catskill 45s do 1967
(Poster design by Posie Strenz) My very part-time group, the Catskill 45s, will be playing a one-off concert in Woodstock on Saturday July 21st, as part of the free Woodstock...
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July 16, 2012
Noel Sings Gustafer
Anybody who lives close to us knows that our 7-year old Noel takes his guitar everywhere, singing and playing his way through the Gustafer Yellowgold catalogue. Along the way, we’d...
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June 27, 2012
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