Category Archives: Keyboards

Dartmouth Sportsplex Delivers Music

Last night at the Dartmouth Sportsplex hundreds of excited people enjoyed an All-City Music Program that packed the house.

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The Instruments We First Had

Almost every “baby booming musician” you talk to has the same story. “I was watching the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9th, 1964 . . .”

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Hit Parader Magazine: My Window to the Lyrics

While down at the local juke joint plugging in dimes to hear Herman’s Hermit’s version of Sea Cruise our guitar player, George Plant, brought in a magazine called Hit Parader which had pictures of our idols – Paul Revere, Mark Lindsay (Raider’s singer), Herman’s Hermits and The Dave Clark 5 – and stories of their [...]

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This Business of Music: Revisited

In the 1970′s a book came out on the shelves that took the past thirty years of music and put it into one concise, easy-to-read thesis. It was called “This Business of Music” and I studied it cover to cover because music had become a business for me and a very complicated business at that. [...]

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Vintage Guitars: Let The Buyer Beware

“I have been going to “Vintage” guitar shows for about 21 years. It seems to me that there are many more guitars available today to buy than there were 16 years ago. How can that be? I mean how is it possible for dealers to have 15 to 20 vintage Strats in 1999, when in [...]

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