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Bootleg City: Manfred Mann’s Earth Band in Philadelphia, October ’76

Matthew Boles November 27, 2009 18

When I was a wee mountain man growing up in southern Connecticut, just outside New York City, I quickly learned that everything from Philadelphia was crap: The Flyers were a gang of thugs who

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Bootleg City: The Cranberries in Munich, October ’94

Matthew Boles November 20, 2009 21

Hey, the head man is out of town! This is such a freakin’ good idea. See, when our “public servants” walk into office having “plans” and “introducing legislation,” they immediately start screwing stuff up,

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