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I guess W. is right; the Iraqi people want the same freedoms and privileges we enjoy here in the …read more »

We just bought tickets to see Chevelle (again) at the Pageant. I’ve already seen them 3 times this year (and three times before that in previous years) but I can’t seem to see them enough. We first heard of them back in 1999, I believe. We saw their video for Mia and then we attempted to see them at a very small club in Huntington that summer. This was a small bar called the Stoned Monkey, just down from Marshall University. Actually, I played there once with my old band, Flood, back in the summer of 1995; then it was called Players. Unfortunately they played earlier than usual and we …read more »

I was listening to Blind Melon today at work and it finally hit me that Shannon Hoon was dead. I guess I get a little upset when my musical role models do something stupid like overdose on heroin or shoot themselves in the head. It’s not that I had a personal relationship with any of them but these people did influence me musically and probably personally. It’s weird, I remember when I heard that he’d died; my friend Scott Robinson told me. It was October 21, 1995 and my band was mixing down our compilation CD for Cave Records. I don’t remember …read more »