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Ticket Stub: Dio in Philadelphia, August ’84

Matt Wardlaw May 20, 2010 4

For this week's Ticket Stub, Matt Wardlaw looks back on a face-melting Dio gig from the summer of

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Bootleg City: Peter Gabriel in Philadelphia, July ’87

Matthew Boles December 4, 2009 25

OK, I have to tell you a story. The other day I was sleeping off my annual four-day Thanksgiving bender when my phone rang at the crack of midnight. It took me a second

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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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