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Burglary at Seger Home
A family friend of Bob Seger has been arrested in connection with the theft last August of a Gibson guitar, Rolex watch and other items from the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s home. Police allege 20-year old Andrew W. Thompson snuck back into the...
Tags: Theft, Bob Seger
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Joe Smith donates interview archives: Former Warner Bros. Records prexy gives tapes to Library of Congress
VarietyJoe Smith, former prexy of Warner Bros., Elektra and Capitol Records, has donated recorded interviews with more than 200 top musicians to the Library of Congress. Smith's archives, comprising 238 hours of interviews taped over the course of two years,...Tags: Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Libraries, Ella Fitzgerald
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Gov't Mule frontman Warren Haynes is used to playing many roles
Gov’t Mule and moe. June 24, 7 p.m., $38.50, Toyota Presents Oakdale, 95 South Turnpike Road, Wallingford, (203) 269-8721, oakdale.com If jam bands were NFL teams, guitarist and singer Warren Haynes would be a first-round draft pick, maybe even...
Tags: Garth Brooks, Dickey Betts, Music Industry, Gregg Allman, Jerry Garcia
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Doc Watson dies at 89; guitarist and singer
In 1962, Doc Watson and some of his musician neighbors set out from their home in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the journey of a lifetime, to perform at the Ash Grove folk club in Los Angeles.
"I remember the first trip we did," Watson said in a 2008...Tags: Barbara Lee, Radio Industry, Customs and Tradition, Music Industry, Folk (genre)
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Our Picks: Sunday jazz in Fairfield County
You don't have to train it to the big city to hear some great jazz on a Sunday evening. Here are a couple of world class performers that are bringing their talents to the quiet reaches of inland Fairfield County. Bucky Pizzarelli & Ed Laub: Sarah's...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Pizzas, Bars and Clubs, Ridgefield, Foods and Beverages
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Guitar History To Hit Auction Block
FOX 17 MeteorologistMost musicians, and many non musicians have some idea of who Les Paul is and what he played. Born in Waukesha, Wisconsin back in 1915, he was known as the father of the electric guitar. He truly revolutionized the sound of the electric guitar, and...Tags: Auction Service, Music Industry, Entertainment, Music
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2012: The Year the Music Died (So Far)
It’s not even June. But already this calendar year we’ve lost a gut-wrenching list of people who’ve impacted the music world: impresarios Don Cornelius and Dick Clark, R&B legends Johnny Otis and Etta James, the incomparable Band...
Tags: Joan Rivers, Rashied Ali, George Shearing, Earl Scruggs, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (music group)
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Zerg Rush Easter egg and other great time wasters from Google
Google's Zerg Rush is a gift to all of us who believe that not every minute spent at work should be used in productive pursuits. If you have a few minutes to spare, try typing the words "zerg rush" into Google from the search engine's homepage. Then...
Tags: Gaming, Easter, Online Media Industry, Entertainment
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The Google doodle: A highly creative home page homage
Special to the Los Angeles TimesPhotographer Robert Doisneau is known for Parisian street scenes that reflected his fascination with what he called "the marvels of daily life." Four of his images — including his famous (if posed) 1950 picture of a kissing couple — graced...Tags: Sergey Brin, Arts and Culture, Jules Verne, Charlie Chaplin, Larry Page
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A member of Gene Vincent's band describes joining Rock Hall of Fame
"I’m coming down off the cloud. It'll take me a few days, but I expect I’ll get there," said 71-year-old drummer Dickie Harrell, who, as part of Gene Vincent's original band, was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame on Saturday. A number of...
Tags: Chet Atkins, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Smokey Robinson, Kid Rock, Jeff Beck
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All hail the Marshall stack: The amplifiers that built rock
Pop & HissRock amplifier innovator Jim Marshall died on Thursday. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts offers insight into the importance of the "Marshall stack" as a symbol in rock & roll....
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