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Jheri Curl Fridays 08: “Let It Whip”
Cleveland's Dazz Band ruled the summer of 1982 with their hypnotic funk jam "Let It Whip."
Read More »Bootleg City: One Man’s Dystopia Is Another Man’s …
Todd Rundgren's Utopia performed in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 16, 1974, but Bootleg City is where you'll find the document of their concert
Read More »Live Music: Jackson Browne and David Lindley in Cleveland, 9/19/10
“You know, he sounded JUST as good as he sounded when I saw him in the ’90s!” The comment, uttered by a fellow concertgoer as we were leaving Sunday night’s Jackson Browne concert at
Read More »Live Music: Asia in Cleveland, Ohio, 8/13/10
The need for new material from Asia is a subject that on paper, is highly debatable in certain circles. But for those that have caught the reactivated ’80s rockers live in the past few
Read More »Ticket Stub: Emerson, Lake & Palmer in Wheeling, November ’77
For those of you that read my Ticket Stub piece last week regarding Michael Bolton, I should tell you that good portions of that were nothing more than an April Fool’s joke. I think
Read More »Ticket Stub: Elton John in Cleveland, November ’70
As music fans, I think we all remember the first time that we came across certain albums. On one particular day at the local Goodwill thrift store, I was thumbing through the stacks of
Read More »Bootleg City: Air Supply in Cleveland, October ’82
For the Bootleg City before Mother's Day, what could be more appropriate than an Air Supply concert from 1982? If you answered "God, no, anything but that," you would be incorrect, as Robert Cass
Read More »Dw. Dunphy On… Adam Again
In an ongoing series, Dw. Dunphy takes an occasional look back at Christian contemporary music (CCM) of the past and makes the case for a new audience to rediscover the best of it as
Read More »Basement Songs: Michael Stanley Band, “Lover”
My sophomore year at Bowling Green State University, I attended a performance by an African dance troupe. I don’t recall much of that show, save for the troupe inviting the audience on stage to
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