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Bootleg City
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Robert Cass
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All the way from Tucson, Arizona, the ghost town of Bootleg City welcomes Cyndi Lauper and Ben Folds!
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Robert Cass
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The mayor has found his true calling, so he’s calling it quits as mayor.
Matthew Boles
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Matthew Boles pays tribute to former Warrant frontman Jani Lane, who passed away on August 11, with a bootleg from the band’s concert in Tokyo on April 21, 1991.
Robert Cass
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The incarcerated mayor of Bootleg City was deeply disappointed to hear that HarperCollins has canceled the publication of Billy Joel’s memoir, The Book of Joel, but a 1976 bootleg of the Piano Man in New York City has helped ease his pain.
Matt Wardlaw
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Matt Wardlaw shares some Fresh Prince bootleg love and, using Bootleg City’s long-distance calling plan, shares his thoughts with Gary Cherone about Van Halen III.
Matthew Boles
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Matthew Boles presents a Megadeth concert from May 29, 1995, and gets excited about Bootleg City Community College’s new, ridiculously tricked-out baseball stadium.
Robert Cass
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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.
Matt Wardlaw
3 Min Read
Let’s cut to the chase on today’s edition of Bootleg City. While I could tell you a story about the time Mayor Cass took a bunch of taxpayer money and…
Matt Wardlaw
2 Min Read
Sad news came out of Austin this week that Bill Maddox, longtime drummer for Eric Johnson, had passed away after a fatal shooting at his home. (You can find additional coverage here.)…
Matthew Boles
1 Min Read
It’s Styxmas in Bootleg City, which means lots of heartfelt yet bombastic pop-rock caroling, tons of Mr. Roboto action figures under the tree, and a bootleg from October 31, 1981.
Matt Wardlaw
1 Min Read
It’s Christmas Eve, so I’m going to keep this one short. Let’s face it, if you’re reading this, you should be with your family right now. But maybe you’re like Mayor…
Matt Wardlaw
2 Min Read
Hi, guys. I’m happy to let you know that I have a long-overdue update from the beloved (in only one small part of the zip code) Mayor Cass. Now, I…
Matthew Boles
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Matthew Boles presents a 1979 concert from Arlo Guthrie, whose song “Alice’s Restaurant” has become a Thanksgiving classic.
Robert Cass
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Mayor Cass tips his hat (and the rest of his wardrobe) to the outgoing mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, and uploads a Nada Surf concert from 2008 for your downloading pleasure.
Robert Cass
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Songs from Midnight Oil’s 1993 acoustic tour are featured this week, while Bootleg City goes “unplugged” to fight light pollution (translation: a crushing electric bill).
Robert Cass
4 Min Read
Mayor Cass returns with an end-of-summer recap from prison and features a 1990 bootleg from Phil Collins’s Seriously Live! world tour.
Matthew Boles
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We had a small problem last week in Bootleg City when some guy named Guest tried to pull a fast one and disparage our happy home. Fortunately, Sheriff Will Teasle…
Robert Cass
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The mayor of Bootleg City sends an update from prison, and the final two volumes of Y100 Sonic Sessions are featured in their entirety.
Matt Wardlaw
1 Min Read
I need to remember this So baby, give me just one kiss And let me take a long last look Before we say goodbye Greetings, oh beloved citizens of Bootleg…
Matt Wardlaw
1 Min Read
What’s it like being a career criminal? For the answer we go, as always, to our good friend Mayor Cass, keeper of the keys for this here place we call…
Matthew Boles
1 Min Read
You may have noticed that updates from Bootleg City have been erratic the past few weeks. Well, it’s all the mayor’s fault. It seems he’s decided to be selfish and…
Robert Cass
3 Min Read
Yesterday morning I decided to take a leisurely bike ride along Whiskey River, the main waterway that runs through Bootleg City. (Technically, the river is one-tenth moonshine due to a…
Robert Cass
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In addition to letting perennial electoral bridesmaid Matt Wardlaw write a chapter of my autobiography in exchange for bailing me out of an Arizona jail, I had to agree to…
Robert Cass
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I’d like to start off by apologizing for my absence last week. After deciding to boycott all things Arizona from Bootleg City, I realized I’d never seen the old London…
Robert Cass
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On April 23 Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law the state’s controversial immigration bill, which aims “to identify, prosecute and deport illegal immigrants,” according to the New York Times,…
Robert Cass
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The Bootleg City teacher’s union went on strike this week, delaying the production of this week’s mayoral update. Or is it “teachers’ union?” Or just “teachers union” without any of…
Matthew Boles
1 Min Read
There was no question as to which artist I wanted to feature this week in Bootleg City — one of my all-time favorites, Ronnie James Dio, who died of stomach…
Robert Cass
4 Min Read
Earlier this week I took a group of underprivileged kids to see the first big blockbuster of the summer movie season, Iron Man 2. Or at least they sounded underprivileged…
Robert Cass
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Last week I mentioned that my mom took me to see Chicago in West Germany in 1977 with Matt Wardlaw and his older sister— I mean, his mother. Yes, of…
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