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Rocking With Aquarium’s Soviet Underground (opens the original)
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You find yourself walking blindly through a Russian city, looking at Cyrillic street names, matching them to a hand written note in Russian. There were no maps. No GPS. No cell phones. But you have a ticket in your hand to an underground Soviet rock concert. The band Aquarium, was one of the biggest draws in the USSR rock scene. Alex, my friend in Moscow, had handed me the ticket in person while we stood at Pushkin Square in Moscow. He said you need to go see these guys. I offered to buy the tic
Twenty Five Years Ago Today, Post 9/11 (opens the original)
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It was one of those events. You will always remember where you were and what you were doing when the news flashes hit. Twenty five hundred miles to the east. Yet it was in our living room. In our neighborhoods. The twin towers. The Pentagon. A field in Pennsylvania. The images were horrific and shocking. You knew instantly that life was going to be different from that moment on. The rest is history.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PVp1!,f
TZ19 - Timezone East Meets West! (opens the original)
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This is Chapter 19 of a series of stories about how the Timezone Music Project evolved during a decade long pursuit of an international music collaboration between musicians from Kiev, Moscow and Humboldt County, California - 1982-1992Timezone East was in the air. Musicians had boarded a flight at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport and were on their way to San Francisco and ultimately, Humboldt County. They sat aboard the flight, slightly incredulous at the developments. Up until that p
On The Loneliest Highway In America (opens the original)
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You just find yourself out there. The loneliest road in America. Highway 50. You are traveling alone in December on a winter’s night across Nevada, passing through Tonopah and Eureka. At Ely, you turn north to Wendover on Highway 93. One hundred and twenty miles with no towns. Now you are heading off the loneliest road into a place even more desolate. It’s 2AM in the morning when the connecting rod lets loose and blows a hole through the side of your truck’s motor, causing the engine to seize. Y
Six Thousand Women In The Hop Craze (opens the original)
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LeRoy Gates, was known for a lot of things, some that almost got him hung. But one of his renowned exploits went down in the annals of Wisconsin history as rather extraordinary when he recruited six thousand women for the southern Wisconsin hop harvest in 1867, at the peak of the state’s hop boom. To understand the context of this event, you need to understand three things - what prompted the boom times in Wisconsin hops, the demographics of the labor force in the state in the 1860’s, and the op
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