Confessions of a Fanboy

If I had called it a loose end, I’d have to start singing Springsteen and that’s not what I want to talk about right now.
Last week I went and saw Nick Moss & The Flip Tops here in Huntsville. I talked a little bit about that last week, but the BIGBOY writeup was published [...]

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I have a good feeling about this one… today, I mean. Yesterday was a shithole of a day. I’ve had worse, but yesterday just sucked out loud. I can count on one hand the number of good things that happened. By virtue of today not being yesterday, I’d have felt good [...]

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I am not going to bore you all with all the reasons I didn’t properly promote Dan Wilson’s appearance on the B-Sides Concept Album. Life intervened on what seemed like every different front and it just didn’t happen.
That said, Dan was on the show tonight and he was fantastic. He was insightful and [...]

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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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And in the silence…
Yes, the world has stopped spinning for five minutes and I’m filled with enough energy and inspiration to commit words to page. TheWifeToWhomI’mMarried is off to visit her family and I’m home from work with nothing but three cats, 1,000 CDs, and some time. This is not a bad way [...]

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I’m once again pleased to report there were a lot of outstanding records released this past year. You wouldn’t know that if you read certain magazines, blogs or web sites. You certainly wouldn’t know it if you listened to most radio stations. Fortunately for you, you’re smarter than that and you’re not [...]

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A great time was had by all last night on the B-Sides Concept Album Program as we re-capped our favorite music of 2007.
That conversation from last night — despite coming close to not happening at all — has gotten me excited about going back and listening to some of the great albums of this past [...]

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D.O.A. Dead on arrival. I imagine those letters being stamped on Dan Wilson’s Free Life at alleged music stores and radio stations across the country. The body is set to be buried before it’s even died.
Once again, I find myself taking up arms to fight for another good record due to be [...]

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Today’s update is coming a little late because I’m still not sure what day it is or where I am. I can tell you what I’ve been listening to, but that’s about it so here we go:
Dan Wilson — Free Life: I’ll do it to you every time. Give me ZERO turnaround [...]

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In addition to the new R.E.M. live CD/DVD set, next week’s release schedule also includes the debut solo album of former Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson. I’ve wrote about this record a month or so ago and it kind of fell off my radar until the calendar changed to October and got closer to the [...]

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