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author of “Allen Ginsberg: Material Wealth”and “Listen Whitey! Sounds of Black Power” and “Did It! Jerry Rubin” - reissue producer / liner note writer for Fire Records

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Bristol March 9th 1971

11.03.2026 06:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Seattle’s Kenny Hill has left the building - several years ago - I brought his brother Robbie over to Steve Fisk’s Ballard villa to have these recordings mixed for Light in the Attic records!
Originally recorded at RCA in LA in 1975 with Executive Producer Cuba Gooding Sr.

10.03.2026 22:13 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Gotta Get Back: The Unreleased L.A. Sessions (12

Check it out here

lightintheattic.net/collections/...

10.03.2026 22:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Seattle’s Kenny Hill has left the building - several years ago - I brought his brother Robbie over to Steve Fisk’s Ballard villa to have these recordings mixed for Light in the Attic records!
Originally recorded at RCA in LA in 1975 with Executive Producer Cuba Gooding Sr.

10.03.2026 22:13 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Fab book getting an expanded reissue this week !

10.03.2026 19:29 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sing Out with Martin Carthy

10.03.2026 19:08 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

"you should work with Ginsberg, that guy has got words!" -

Bob Dylan to Phil Spector circa 1977

10.03.2026 17:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As the author of ‘Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary” - an oral & visual history of Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies - this “new subscribers offer” is something that I can really get behind !

10.03.2026 15:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fabulous

10.03.2026 15:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Get the Beatles Back, Glyn Johns

10.03.2026 15:20 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

"You hear musicians saying, 'Even if I didn't get paid for this, I'd do it anyway.' When's the last time you heard a businessman say, 'If they didn't pay me for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free' ?"
- Dick Gregory

10.03.2026 15:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Genius of Van Morrison: Inspiration and Indifference — StageStories Boch Center Wang Theatre Boston, MA, March 3-4, 2026 Story and Photography by JD Cohen

This review from a recent show in Boston captures the essence of what I just witnessed in the San Francisco Bay Area

www.stagestoriesmusicmagazine.com/featured-art...

10.03.2026 06:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I first discovered Jack Bruce via Cream - but his post Cream solo albums are very rewarding also - as is his early work with Graham Bond - let’s not forget he played bass on Lou Reed’s Berlin

10.03.2026 01:19 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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It’s this guy’s birthday
I once told him that I loved him
he didn’t respond

09.03.2026 13:32 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Underrated spiritual music from these icons of English folk rock

09.03.2026 13:34 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Underrated spiritual music from these icons of English folk rock

09.03.2026 13:34 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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It’s this guy’s birthday
I once told him that I loved him
he didn’t respond

09.03.2026 13:32 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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08.03.2026 16:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Apparently, musician and political activist Country Joe McDonald has just passed away - this memory of him came up this week in my phone;

08.03.2026 16:26 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Today is International Women’s Day;

“Don’t think that sticking your boobs out and trying to look f*ckable will help. Remember you’re in a rock ‘n’ roll band. It’s not ‘f*ck me...it’s f*ck you!”
- Chrissie Hynde

08.03.2026 15:30 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Albert Lee, Peter Frampton, Rory Gallagher, Kenny Jones at Jerry Lee Lewis 1973 London sessions released by Mercury Records

08.03.2026 15:08 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

If you can make it happen in New York - you can make it anywhere!

08.03.2026 00:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the grand old dame Marianne Faithfull reciting classic poems from the likes of Byron, Keats, Shelly, Tennyson accompanied by ambient music - Eno contributes some soundscapes here as does Nick Cave on piano. This is something different and delicious.

07.03.2026 21:20 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

You were right there with me !

07.03.2026 19:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You are doing god’s work in a god-like manner

07.03.2026 18:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

discussing the glorious early 1980s with a friend; vinyl LPs were cheap, CDs weren’t for sale yet, indie-rock was fresh, live music clubs were plentiful, college radio hadn't been co-opted by major labels and there were several inspiring fanzines to get your information from.

07.03.2026 18:34 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Happiness is a book cover designed by Darryl Norsen that I helped edit and fund about the 1960s Yippie movement by a woman who helped lead the movement Nancy Kurshan and published by @threeroomspress.bsky.social

07.03.2026 17:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0