Addicted To Vinyl

Some of you might remember shock jock Greaseman, who achieved quite a bit of notoriety for all of the wrong reasons in the 90s.
He’s back on the air in Jacksonville, FL with a new afternoon gig starting today on the classic rock station WFYV (Rock 105.)
Of course WFYV had to make room by clearing out […]

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so sad - didn’t even know that he was ill.
Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died aged 65 from cancer.
Wright appeared on the group’s first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967 alongside lead guitarist Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason.

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Wright toured with David Gilmour […]

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I don’t even know where to begin this one, so we’ll start here:
I’m messaging back and forth today with my friend AK, one of my friends that goes way back in my timeline.
I guess that she and I have known each other nearly 20 years now, and yet we know each […]

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I’ve seen several different perspectives on the passing of Don LaFontaine, but I liked my buddy Terry’s thoughts:
Don LaFontaine, the King of Voiceovers, passed away in Los Angeles on Monday at the age of 68. Don died of complications relating to a collapsed lung.
Don’s magical voice appeared on over 5,000 movie trailers and 350,000 commercials. […]

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I was shocked, as I think many people were, to wake up to the news today that George Carlin had passed.
I wasn’t a monster Carlin fan, but I had a huge amount of respect for his career and the things that he had accomplished. Carlin was one of the greats, much like Richard Pryor, […]

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When people want to know why I have such a strong love for Bruce’s music, and Bruce as a person, I’ve always got at least one example that I can point to.
Now, here is the latest example as posted at brucespringsteen.net: The eulogy as delivered by Bruce Springsteen, for 40 year E. Street Band […]

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Sad news in my inbox this morning, as I read of the passing of “Phantom Dan” Danny Federici, who for 40 years, was keyboard player in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. Federici took a leave of absence in November from the E Street Band to pursue treatment for the melanoma which he had been […]

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