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On Being a Sideman

Most bands start out as a group of like-minded individuals striving to play the music that they all enjoy. As with most groups of people members do fall out and are replaced and the new additions sometimes add a new and different style and, sometimes, a new direction. If an established group has a member [...]

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Desperado

One of the watershed albums of the early 1970′s was the release of Desperado by The Eagles. A band put together by Linda Ronstadt’s manager it was originally made up of Bernie Leadon, Glenn Frey and Randy Meisner. Leadon named it The Eagles as a tribute to his relationship with The Byrds. It was his [...]

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The Ventures Make Hall of Fame

It always interests me how history is re-interpreted by each new generation. For example, a month ago in Russia Vladimir Putin began rattlings that Joseph Stalin was a great leader and wanted to resurrect his memory. What that means is to reinvent the man and ignore him as Hitlers’ bunkmate for the greatest genocide expert [...]

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