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Top 25? Our top 3 records of 2014
There’s never been a year-end music roundup at AM, Then FM because that’s really not how we roll here. That said, I read Ken Shane’s late-to-the-party roundup of his favorite albums of 2014 over at...
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Breaking up in real time
The intersection of sports and music can be messy, often littered with novelty songs and athletes turned dreadful singers, dancers and musicians. But music and sports intersected in a most remarkable...
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The record library is open
It had been so long since someone asked, the question damn near startled me. “Can I borrow some of your records?” Some of my records? These records? And then my head cleared. Yes, of course, you can...
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Parked near the Batmobile
If social media are any indication, all the cool kids — including my friends Norb and Brian — are in Madison this weekend. The Wizard World Comic Con Madison is going on next door to what we used to...
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Eight years on
As February rolls to a close, it’s time to quietly celebrate another year of AM, Then FM. It was during the last week of February 2007 that we made a tiny splash in the blogosphere. Though there are...
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We’re getting closer to my home
It’s been a long drought for decent shows up here where the interstate ends. Since Joan Jett stopped by last September, there hasn’t been much to get excited about. Not even the Eagles, announced last...
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Tin Dog’s sound advice
There, on the bottom of the receipt from Saturday’s record-digging expedition, are words to live by. “ENJOY THE TUNES” I didn’t notice that until I got the record all the way home from Tin Dog Records...
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How much stuff is too much stuff?
Much of the month that’s passed since our last post has been spent moving my 89-year-old father into assisted living. A big part of that has been dealing with things he accumulated — and for whatever...
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Gone fishing up north
Memorial Day weekend always summons the same set of memories. My uncles — my mother’s brothers — and my dad occasionally gathered for a guys’ getaway at the same northern Wisconsin resort on Memorial...
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I came in through the bathroom window
Do memories become any less tangible, any less vivid if there is no physical frame of reference for them? Particularly memories of a place where you’ve lived? I’m about to find out again. First it was...
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Summer’s over, man
It’s been a weird summer, and now it’s over. Your calendar doesn’t say so, but ours does. Packers training camp started today, and that is the beginning of football season in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It’s...
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It was 50 years ago today …
One of the joys of digging through old newspaper microfilm is finding things you didn’t expect to find. So it is as I’ve started a project to live-tweet, sort of, the Green Bay Packers’ championship...
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Asbury Park, 854 miles that way
It’s all over Facebook and Twitter today. Bruce Springsteen’s “Born To Run” LP was released 40 years ago today, on Aug. 25, 1975. Many of my friends are Springsteen fans, and I understand and...
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Dig the scintillating action!
The record digging on vacation was nothing to write home about. Not sure why, but I’ve never had much luck when digging in Minneapolis. Except at the fine Hymie’s Vintage Records, that is. It’s in the...
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The end of the season
This scene from “Major League,” filmed at our beloved Milwaukee County Stadium more than 25 years ago, pretty much sums up what kind of a season it was for the Milwaukee Brewers. This first Sunday...
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Those TV themes of intrigue
“Ooh, ooh! Green Hornet marathon on Decades!” my friend Larry in New Jersey announced yesterday. Likewise, my friend Bruce in Philadelphia announced it was “binge time.” Dang. We don’t get that channel...
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The records left behind
Sunday’s road trip took us to Madison, Wisconsin, where there are several fine record stores. One of our stops was at Strictly Discs, not far from Camp Randall Stadium. It opened in 1988, when we lived...
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Be thankful
Everyone is missing someone today, on Thanksgiving. Savor those memories. Make new memories. Enjoy the day! “Be Thankful For What You Got,” William DeVaughn, from “Be Thankful For What You Got,” 1974....
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Merry Christmas, hip cats!
This used to be the place where you could find all kinds of Christmas music come this time of year. If you’re disappointed that it no longer is, well, sorry/not sorry. It just isn’t my cup of tea...
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A Christmas Eve tradition returns
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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