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Well, here we are at the end of another exhausting year of disease, death, social upheaval, creeping fascism, across-the-board uncertainty and sundry shades of dread. As seems to have become …
Reelin’ in the Years
It must have been 20 or more years ago when I first met Jason Fritts. I don’t know the year, exactly, but I recall the cirumstance. I was on my …
Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend Jason?
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Close Encounters
This article is dedicated to the lonesome misfits of Generation X. Names of people and some places have been changed for the usual reasons. In 1983 I was an obnoxious …
This Is Where We Walked
The cowbell has been with us for something like 5,000 years now, from humble beginnings in Africa, where early herdsmen hung small bells made from pottery around the necks of …
All’s Well That Cowbells
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Cruel Summer (and Autumn and Winter)
On October 6, 2021, the music fans of Wichita, Kansas were crushed to hear of the passing of local legend Rudy Love. But the fact that so comparatively few beyond …
Rudy Love: This Song Is for You
As a young man just entering my 20s I fell for a time into the orbit of a Jane. It was then that I first noted the preponderance of songs …
Jane! Jane! Jane!
This is a true story and includes discussion and links related to the traumatic events of 9/11. It also details the period of my life in which I was prescribed …
I’ll Fly Away
The latter half of the 1990s was a transitional time for the music industry. Production of vinyl records had petered out almost entirely and the long-popular cassette format was plummeting …
Seen Magazine’s Lost Nineties Playlist