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This land was his land
What a time we have lived in. That realization comes more often as those of us of a certain age get older. When we were kids in the ’60s, there were four TV channels. On those four channels, there was...
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Don’t let it happen in your world
On Super Bowl Sunday, there was this. An ad for Chevy Silverado trucks set to Hot Chocolate’s “You Sexy Thing” from 1975. On the day after Super Bowl Sunday, Deadspin writer Drew Magary went off — and...
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Kings Go Forth, then disappear
There haven’t been a lot of cool soul bands to come out of Wisconsin lately, so when one does, you notice. When that scorching 10-piece group goes missing, you notice that, too. So whatever happened to...
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‘Seven’ for seven
AM, Then FM turns 7 this week. To celebrate, a story of a long-ago record hunt. Those of you who are regulars know how much I dig Bob Seger’s early stuff. The first Seger song I came to know and love,...
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The downside of digging
This weekend seemed so promising. A friend emailed to say he’d be at a big indoor rummage sale on Saturday with six boxes of records, so stop by. I’d heard of a new place — new to me, at least — about...
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New arrivals from the South
Record Store Day pretty much came and went without me, and that’s OK. Judging from Facebook, it looked like all of my favorite record stores had plenty of folks come through. We were headed south on...
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Cookie, Glick and Larry, Esq.
When we were kids, there always were a few baseball or football cards that just never turned up. Not for you, not for your friends, seemingly not for anyone where you lived. So it was in the spring of...
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Dad, where are your tapes?
My old stereo went off to college last weekend. Our son moved into his new dorm at UW-Green Bay, and Evan asked for the old stereo from the basement. Old to him, at least. To me, that’s the new stereo,...
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The show must go on … and does
After Davy Jones’ death two years ago, I wondered how the Monkees would, or even could, go forward. Even after Michael Nesmith came back into the picture later that year, I wondered how that would go....
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Starring the legendary Harvey Scales!
Once upon a time, there were rock and soul and R&B revues that traveled the land, stopping at clubs, college rathskellers, frat houses, roadhouses and beer bars across the Midwest, then rocking the...
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Could we go back to lighters?
When I went to see Joan Jett and the Blackhearts on Saturday night, I walked down to within about 20 feet of the stage. Close enough for a decent picture, I thought. When she took the stage, I pulled...
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Kind of absurd, but great memories
Hard to believe that Steve Goodman has been gone 30 years today. Leukemia. Wasn’t it just yesterday that we met at the merch table after a show in Madison, Wisconsin? When he autographed my record to...
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My lingering cluelessness
Even though there are more than 1,000 records in the crates at AM, Then FM world headquarters, evidence of my lingering cluelessness emerges from time to time. As it has with the news that Paul Revere,...
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Life at 20
To mark its 20th anniversary, Mojo magazine is doing a series of interviews with “20 world-changing musicians looking back on their 20th year.” Less grandly put, it’s about what their life was like,...
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Goodbye, indeed
As mentioned the other day … Late to the wake after Jack Bruce’s passing. Went to grab my only Cream record and … hey, where did it go? pic.twitter.com/HbQfaV3kun — AM, Then FM (@AMThenFM) October 26,...
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Late to Glick’s party
Every life has odd bits of symmetry, and this is mine: Most of my best friends have been named Mike. There has been Mike S., Mike F., Mike G., Mike M., another Mike S. — same last name as the first guy...
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An impromptu Christmas
There once was a time when you’d find Christmas music posted here pretty much every day before Dec. 25. Those days are long gone. My passion for Christmas music has waned. It seems like the soundtrack...
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Our Christmas Eve tradition
On this Christmas Eve, a post that has become a tradition. On a winter day more than 40 years ago, Louis Armstrong went to work in the den at his home at 34-56 107th Street in Corona, Queens, New York....
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Snoopy and Michael, John and Yoko
After a Christmas season in which less was more, all I really need for Christmas are these three songs. They come from a more innocent time. “Snoopy’s Christmas,” the Royal Guardsmen, from “Snoopy and...
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Gone in threes: 2014
They say celebrities and prominent people go in threes. Well, 2014 was no different than any other year. Here’s proof. All The President’s Men: Howard Baker (“What did the president know, and when did...
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