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Concert review: KISS/Motley Crue Tampa 7/28

July 29, 2012
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Concert review: KISS/Motley Crue Tampa 7/28

(Following are some random impressions of last night’s KISS/Motley Crue/The Treatment gig at Tampa’s 100-AX-GARY Amphitheatre. Wanna know the current state of geriatric metal? Ax Gary!) The Treatment — Tonight’s support act hail from the UK, but trade in thoroughly generic American hard rock — the kind that Atlantic Records would have signed in...
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Book review: Ace Frehley, “No Regrets”

November 7, 2011
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Book review: Ace Frehley, “No Regrets”

The unexpected delight of Life, last year’s Keith Richards autobio, was the vivid detail with which Richards was able to recall his boyhood in wartime and postwar Britain. When one compared those passages to his comparatively scattershot impressions of adulthood, the takeaway was that protracted drug abuse only affects a man’s memories of the...
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Detroit Rock City Beautiful

March 18, 2011
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Scuttlebutt out of last night’s KISS gig in Hollywood has the band allegedly playing Orlando as part of its fall 2011 tour. This is fairly momentous news to diehards, as the group has never looked upon us as a favored market; the last time they played here, Bill Clinton was still president and Tommy...
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