Confessions of a Fanboy

It took a hell of a lot longer to get this done than I wanted and it has put me further behind but I feel so much better now. I’ve finished the second part of my interview with Adam Duritz and you can read both parts over at BC Magazine (Part 1 and Part […]

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It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
I had planned to start ramping things up around here centered on my upcoming trip to Atlanta on Friday to see my very first Bruce Springsteen concert. That sad passing of “Phantom” Dan Federici, combined with my conversation with Adam Duritz, kind of halted that momentum.
Now I need […]

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I had something else in mind when I started writing Part 2 and I got totally fucking sidetracked. Here’s what I wanted to say then.
I’ve been going through the transcript and it’s a long process and even though the interview was thoroughly enjoyable, this part isn’t. It’s great to hear it again, […]

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I’m still slogging through yesterday’s interview, transcribing. I should be careful there. Transcription is a painful, painful process if you give 1/10th of a fuck about being accurate and honest about what was said and I do. I’d take this level of care (translation: be totally fucking anal) to be really careful […]

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Everybody deserves an afternoon like I had today. I don’t know what I expected, but the entire experience was so much more and so much better than I ever could have dreamed.
There is a perception — no, a caricature, that persists about Adam Duritz. I don’t know what the right words for it […]

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31 albums made their Billboard 200 chart debut, and George Strait came out on top. There are at least 166,000 people not depressed by that fact. I am not one of them. Troubador, or True Bore, as I like to call it, is his fourth #1 album
R.E.M. came in second place […]

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Yeah, I know… way to give it all away in the headline. Way to keep them wanting more. Way to lure them in with a cryptic headline and pique their curiosity. I hate writing headlines. Fuckin’ sue me, then.
I’d given up on Counting Crows years ago. I was slow to […]

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Minutes tick away and I have planned and re-planned this day at last count at least six counts. I’m now writing about an album I had no plan to write about, listening to an album I had no plan on buying yet somehow it wound up underneath the doormat of my Huntsville apartment. […]

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