Boston Harold Podcast

SCENE: The night after Thanksgiving. A post-apocalyptic vision: It’s a dark, cold, windy evening in the big city, snow flurries on the way. People, bundled up, masked and anonymous, in long lines in front of the Providence Performing Arts Center. An ominous voice warns patrons over the loudspeakers to have their IDs and vaccination cards, or proof of a recent negative Covid test, ready, and to remove their phones from out of their pockets. Across the street, almost an hour before show time, the parking lot is already almost full. An elderly woman is having difficulty with the credit card payment kiosk, while the parking clerk is distracted as he is directing the last few cars into the lot, too busy to help or even notice her. After I was finally able to pay for my parking space, I saw there were two lines to get in, with the wellness check person in the center examining IDs and Covid status. I went for the shorter line on the left. We’re all herded in like cattle. Metal detectors, tick...

  CONCERT REVIEW: HOT TUNA (with special guest Susan Tedeschi) THE DAVID BROMBERG QUINTET THE WILBUR, BOSTON NOVEMBER 28, 2021 "How Long Blues" by Hot Tuna. The Wilbur, Boston, November 28, 2021  All Hot Tuna  @ Wilbur photographs (c) Harold Lepidus 2021 “Jorma wails, Jack sails …” Fifty years ago, I became a fan of both David Bromberg and (via the Jefferson Airplane) Hot Tuna. At the time, the only way for me to find out about cool music was through music magazines, Top 40 AM radio, television appearances, and word of mouth. My classmate Keith Foelsch was the only kid in my grade that had any cool records. I’d go to his house, we’d hang out in his room, listen to his LPs, and talk about music. One day he put on Jefferson Airplane’s 1971 album, Bark . I was intrigued by the mystique and the elaborate packaging, as well as the groovy sounds coming from his speakers. I already had the Woodstock triple album, but for someone just learning about this stuff, Bark was really ...

                                                                                             Teatles Collage Post Card - Credit HUW SPINK Hello and welcome to the Boston Harold Podcast blog. My special guest today is Huw Spink, the person responsible for one of the most joyful and uplifting things to be found on social media, the Twitter page known as “Teatles,” which focuses only on the Beatles and their connection to tea.    (Thanks @TheWidowTillane on Twitter) Since then, “Teatlemania” on Twitter has accumulated over 6,000 followers, and has even reached the former wife of one of the Fab Four!  Peace, love, and tea, everybody!    Who is Huw? Hello. I am a 40 year old man who lives in Liverpool.   What’s it like living ...