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Scorpions- Crazy World 30th Anniversary- Klaus Meine, Rudolph Schenker

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When I heard that Spotify had a podcast based on the premise that the CIA wrote the Scorpions 1991 international hit “Wind of Change”, I literally giggled out loud. “What a hoot!” I thought. “They’ll have to get the song’s composer, Scorpions lead singer Klaus Meine, to tell The New Yorker   reporter about being invited to meet and dine with Soviet Premiere Mikhail Gorbachev in Summer 1990 when Scorpions played the Moscow Music and Peace Festival, which inspired Meine to write “Wind of Change”…

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The Cult- Love 35th Anniversary- Billy Duffy

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It was the mid-Eighties, and rolling the streets of Dallas/Ft.Worth felt less right in a big-block muscle car and just right in a fire-engine red BMW M3 with The Cult “Love”  cassette permanently jammed in the dash player blasting “She Sells Sanctuary”,”Rain”,”Nirvana”, and “Big Neon Glitter”. Hard to believe it was thirty-five years ago.

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Moody Blues- A Question of Balance 50th- Justin Hayward, John Lodge

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The Moody Blues’ sixth album, “A Question of Balance”, released fifty summers ago, unfolded like a sweeping cinematic epic playing in the panorama between your ears. The antithesis of a Top 40 band, nevertheless “A Question of Balance”  contained the dynamic hit “Question” plus “Dawning is the Day”,”How is It We Are Here”,”It’s Up to You”, and the classic “Melancholy Man”. Justin Hayward and John Lodge co-host here In the Studio

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Van Halen- Poundcake- Dallas 12-4-91

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The story behind this live performance by Van Halen of “Poundcake” in the streets of downtown Dallas in December 1991 gets filed under Urban Legends that are actually true.

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Who- Live at Leeds 50th Anniversary- Pete Townshend 5-11

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The Who Live at Leeds  may have been the first live album I ever bought, but it’s safe to say that it has  since remained a benchmark with which to compare a half century of live performance pretenders to the throne of anything demonstrably better.

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Boston- To Be a Man- Worcester 8-87

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It had been such a “long time”, almost seven years, since the band Boston had recorded and toured that when Tom Scholz, Brad Delp, and Company returned to the concert stage headlining the 1987 Texxas Jam in front of 70,000 in the Dallas Cotton Bowl, it was international news. It also was a terrifying re-entry […]