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Birth of a band

The beginning of a band is an amazing thing to behold, and our fair crapitol city is a perfect microcosmic laboratory in which to observe the ongoing cycle of a band’s birth, life, and eventually, death.  Unless you’re a world renown rock star with unlimited cash and access to the cream of the talent puddle,

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Junkerdash

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. Kurt Vonnegut Musicianship is a superpower.  If there is anything truly magical in this World, it is the human capacity and compulsion to make art, and of course

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Hecklers beware, or we’ll play Free-Bird for an hour, loud.

Nothing can make a stage performance more uncomfortable than your stinkin’ drunk heckler out in the crowd yelling “FREE BIRD!”  I’ve always threatened to learn Free Bird and then play it for an hour and a half next time somebody does that.  Another commonly used taunt (in Alaska anyway) is “Play somethin’ GOOD!”  The best

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