Confessions of a Fanboy

When I learned of Nick Moss’ participation in Daniel Pearl World Music Days yesterday I was reminded of the interview I did with him on my BlogTalkRadio program last year shortly after his Play It ‘Til Tomorrow record was released.  We discussed a song from that album, “Mistakes From The Past,” a place where the [...]

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Nick Moss & The Flip Tops dedicated their performance in Louisville, KY, to the Daniel Pearl Music Days.  The performance at the Garvin Gate Festival on October 10th is the same day Pearl would have turned 45.
Daniel Pearl, a journalist for the Wall Street Journal and musician, was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan [...]

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This is going to come as a great shock to longtime readers, but I am once again behind on my reviews.  Take a look to the left.  It’s a nice problem to have, actually.  What you see there is a hell of a lot of damn good music, and you’re going to be hearing about [...]

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Blame Canada! Blame Canada!
It turns out Depeche Mode was right when they said “People are people.” It turns out that despite the reporting of some media outlets, America doesn’t have a monopoly on assholes after all.
Nick Moss & The Flip Tops were the victims of theft this past weekend while traveling through Canada [...]

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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’m 95% finished with my Nick Moss article. It should be up at BC Magazine this evening if all goes according to plan.
As is usually the case, writing about an artist drives me to their albums. I’ve spent the last two days listening to Nick’s albums as well as Gerry Hundt’s [...]

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34-years old is by no stretch of the imagination old, but it turns out it can be too old for some things. It turns out it doesn’t make one too old to enjoy a great evening of Chicago blues on a Thursday night. It does mean your ass is going to be dragging [...]

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“Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks.”
— Tom Petty
“Some days are better than others”
— Bono
Some days need a shot of espresso, a jolt of adrenaline. Some people take that literally and have a morning espresso. I’ve been known to from time to time but as the weather heats up, my desire for [...]

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Oh, I’m having the weirdest day. I felt like leftover ass yesterday and despite having gone to bed at a human time, I was three steps behind myself all fuckin’ day. I went home last night, took a nap, woke up and still felt a bit shit. We ate a crappy dinner [...]

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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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