All Entries in the "Pinch Me Moments" Category
melissa | Dec 18, 2022 | Comments 0
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Time won’t let me, a timeless pop song from the 1960s, it launched a thousand garage bands. the lead singer sonny geraci had a great career up and thru, precious and few with the band, climax, but then he had health problems. I found myself in cleveland, ohio with 26 other artists in support of […]
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melissa | Mar 11, 2015 | Comments 0
Gary U.S. bonds, Memphis and me
Bruce Springsteen and I are both big Gary U.S. Bonds fans. So you can imagine when I ran into Gary at the Memphis in may festival I was thrilled. I told him that when I first heard “quarter to three” on my transistor radio, I ran out of my house and all the way downtown […]
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Doug | Jul 19, 2013 | Comments 0
Steven Tyler,the uke and me
My friend joe fitz asked me to go to his friends birthday party, he said bring a guitar an a uke, you might enjoy playing with some of the guests. So, ok sounds like fun. Well, in walks Steven and he looks at the uke and says, hey let me play that, and I said, […]
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Doug | Jul 19, 2013 | Comments 0
Newport R&B festival,chuck berry and me
Look how happy! This was my first encounter with chuck berry. I have always been a fan, I mean what human being doesn’t know Johnny B Goode? Chuck wrote short stories for teenagers, it was about us, much like Bill Cosby. The characters weren’t black or white, Asian or Hispanic, they were for ALL of […]
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Doug | Jul 19, 2013 | Comments 0
Jack Nicholson – Bill Murray Swingin’ with Bellevue Cadillac
live footage from harborlights, boston, and hollywood of bellevue cadillac performing with jack nicholson, bill murray, and alice cooper Share
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melissa | Mar 09, 2012 | Comments 0
Fenway park
Fenway park, the green monster…..iconic. I have had more than a few brushes with Fenway. Fundraisers for the jimmy fund, baseball games as a kid, but little did I realize then, I would one day be on a CD with Ted Williams!!! The splendid splinter, one of the greatest that ever lived. When swing was […]
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Doug | Mar 09, 2012 | Comments 0
W. C. Handy Awards 2005
The blues will always be the roots of my musical tree. It began with elvis, then big mama thornton, memphis minnie, mississippi john hurt, leadbelly, muddy waters, son house, robert johnson, howlin’ wolf, tampa red, slim harpo, blind blake, blind willie johnson, on to chicago when it got electrified, bb king, muddy, buddy, cotton, broonzy, butterfield, bloomfield, musslewhite, little walter, even the kansas city headcutters all swirl around in the great melting pot of american rock and roll.
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Doug | Sep 20, 2011 | Comments 0
Jay Geils Jazz and Blues Revue
Life is funny sometimes. I’ve been friends with Gerry Beaudoin, jazz guitarist extrordinarie and leader of the new guitar summit.
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Doug | Jul 13, 2011 | Comments 0
The Beach Boys
A couple of years ago, my friend Charles Stockham said a friend of his, John Wilson, was having a 50th birthday party and had hired the Beach Boys! Would I like to go…….u kidding?
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Doug | May 25, 2011 | Comments 0