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Echo and the Ocean Rain

01-Oct-08

Echo & The Bunnymen have resurrected their seminal 1984 album Ocean Rain with three concerts featuring a string section. Ocean Rain wasn’t nearly as popular as other albums released around that time by The Cure, U2, Depeche Mode, or The Psychedelic Furs, but twenty-four years later, to this listener who had never heard the album [...]

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Panama!

25-May-08

The Palladium, 14th Street…1979, my second-ever arena concert—Van Halen—touring behind their second album. I played that LP to death and had a feeling they would open with “Light Up The Sky,” my favorite track. In those days, set lists were a big surprise; apart from radio, you didn’t hear much about a show unless your [...]

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Realigning

13-May-08

It fits right now that spring pushes out new birth and renewal. The weight of the present proves more telling than any end-of-year wish or resolution. Backed up by the call of summer, spring let’s you visualize beyond any immediate context of events. The young ones typify a continual recycling of practice and motion. This [...]

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