Dennis McNally

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Alternet Ends The Days Between

September 8, 2014 by Dennis McNally

The past six weeks were the days between. I don’t mean this in the Grateful Dead song sense (for those of you who don’t know the song of that title, it was, for my money, the last great Hunter-Garcia collaboration and talked about the span of life between their youth and the 1990’s – life in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Alternet, Bob Dylan, Internet Media, Music, On Highway 61

College Rock: from Sgt. Pepper’s to Jethro Tull

August 25, 2014 by Dennis McNally

Loud, it turned out, wasn’t too terrifying, and following my first step into a real rock concert with Herman’s Hermits, I stayed interested. Of course, for the next year plus I was in Dexter, Maine, and that did not offer a lot of musical possibilities. So what I found interesting had to come … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Rock 'n' roll Tagged With: Jethro Tull, Music, Rock, Sgt. Pepper

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