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DOCUMENT: RAPID EYEWITNESS REPORT FROM THE R.E.M. REUNIONS at NARDUCY/SHANNON TRIBUTE SHOW IN ATHENS, GA, with fab pix!

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DOCUMENT: RAPID EYEWITNESS REPORT FROM  THE R.E.M. REUNIONS at NARDUCY/SHANNON TRIBUTE SHOW  IN ATHENS, GA,  with fab pix!  Interview with Jen Tiernan and Marcus Slade By Harold Lepidus Hello and welcome to The Boston Harold Podcast. When my friends Marcus Slade and Jen Tiernan went to witness the two mini-reunion of the four original founding members of the band REM  at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, GA, the band's original home, I couldn't wait to capture their initial thoughts about the experience.  The joint Zoom interview was recorded on March 5, 2025, in two parts.  Both Jen and Marcus generously agreed to share some of their photographs from the events.  Share in the afterglow!      VIDEO: 40 WATT CLUB, 2/28/25   INTERVIEW PART ONE WITH MARCUS SLADE & JEN TIERNEN 3/5/25 INTERVIEW PART TWO WITH MARCUS SLADE & JEN TIERNEN 3/5/25 PHOTOS (6) BELOW  (c) 2025 JEN TIERNAN PICTURES BELOW (c) 2025 MARCUS SLATE NIGHT ONE...

THIS KID IS ALRIGHT! VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH “THE WHO” AND “CREAM” CONCERT BOOK AUTHOR, EDOARDO GENZOLINI

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THIS KID IS ALRIGHT! VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH “THE WHO” AND “CREAM” CONCERT BOOK AUTHOR, EDOARDO GENZOLINI   By Harold Lepidus Credits: Schiffer Publishing  Hello and welcome to The Boston Harold Video Podcast. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing via Zoom, all the way from Perugia, Italy, Edoardo Genzolini. Mr. Genzolini has recently written and published two brilliantly constructed books which should appeal to music fans everywhere: The WHO at WINTERLAND, 1968 and 1976, and CLAPTON, BRUCE & BAKER- Sitting on top of the world - San Francisco, February -March 1968. He is also the author of  The Who: Concert Memories from the Classic Years, 1964 to 1976 (2002). WHO HE IS: In addition to being a musician himself, Mr. Genzolini is a music archivist and historian. Much like the 1979 documentary about The Who, The Kids Are Alright , Genzolini’s books are the work of a scholarly fan.  In our interview, Edoardo and I discuss how certain films he watched as ...

VIETNAM, WATERGATE, AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE: Bob Dylan/The Band - The 1974 Live Recordings

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VIETNAM, WATERGATE, AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE: Bob Dylan/The Band - The 1974 Live Recordings Mildred (Peggy Maley): “Hey, Johnny! What are you rebelling against?” Johnny (Marlon Brando): “Whadda you got?” —  The Wild One (1953) “Mama wipe the blood from my face/I'm sick and tired of this war/I’ve got a long black feeling and it’s hard to trace” - “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” 1974 live version. “Art is never finished, it is only abandoned,” Leonardo Da Vinci, which can be applied to Dylan’s body of work, as well as this review. (Please forgive any grammatical or syntax errors. I am abandoning the article now, as is.) Bob Dylan and the Band - The 1974 Live Recordings is a 27 CD box set of whatever surviving soundboards exist in the Sony cupboards, from Dylan’s “comeback” trek across North America, then known as “Tour ‘74.” 40 shows in six weeks, sometimes two a day/night - a mix of Dylan with the Band, Dylan solo, and separate sets by the Band. Each of almost all of Dyla...