Growing Old With Rock & Roll
Saturday, March 16, 2024
It Was 50 Years Ago Today / Mott The Hoople, The New York Dolls and Elliott Murphy
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Today is the 75th birthday of Elliott Murphy; my favorite rock & roll songwriter of all time. In honor of that milestone I'm runnin...
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Legalize It! Ricki C. Celebrates the First Day of Legalized Recreational Marijuana in Ohio
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Ricki C. decided to celebrate the December 7th legalization of recreational marijuana with a blog about his own history with illegal recre...
Monday, May 1, 2023
Boston Rock & Roll, Live, early to mid-80's (Mainly The Neighborhoods)
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This blog is reprinted with the kind permission of Pencil Storm - the site where most of my blogs now appear - and is co-written with JCE, ...
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Joe Strummer / August 21, 1952 - December 22, 2002
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Today is December 22nd, 2022, exactly 20 years to the day of the death of Joe Strummer. This isn't gonna to be a long blog, or in-depth,...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Music On Television, 2022-style; Alejandro Escovedo vs. Bleachers
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This blog originally appeared (in a slightly different form) on Pencil Storm.com . WARNING! As befits a blog entitled Growing Old With Roc...
Monday, July 12, 2021
The Sean Richter Chronicles, part two: Sean and Greg the Roadie Visit Callie in the Hospital
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The Sean Richter Chronicles will appear occasionally in Growing Old With Rock & Roll. They are an adjunct to I Love Distortion (a r...
Sunday, February 14, 2021
In Memoriam: Sylvain Sylvain - 1951-2021
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This blog originally appeared on the Pencil Storm blogsite, January 23rd, 2021. Today - Valentine's Day, 2021 - would have been Sylvain...
Saturday, June 13, 2020
When We Was Kids: Willie Phoenix and Me In 1978
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Right before I folded Growing Old With Rock & Roll the first time, back in 2013, I wrote a four (really five, including an appendix) pa...
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Friday, April 24, 2020
Ricki C. Tunes, part four: Today Is Father's Day (Not-So-Instant Replay: Birthday Blog, 2013)
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My sainted Italian father - Al Cacchione Sr. - died 50 years ago today, of a heart attack, at the age of 56, when I was 17 years old. I d...
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