HeyJaredFine Tuning
Reflections on the confluence of music and parenting, while helping rock fans stuck—albeit blissfully—in the 1970s find new music. Exploring themes of my memoir about how music helped me untangle the emotional threads of the father-son relationship.
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“His father” (opens the original)
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“His father.” Referring to me, that’s how my son identified his grandfather to a friend.We’d just attended the annual yahrzeit remembrance service for my father—the thirty-fifth such service I’ve attended—and his friend had asked who the service was for.“His father,” was my son’s response.The phrase hit me like a sucker punch, leaving me momentarily discombobulated. “He’s also your grandfather,” I wanted to say for some reason. No doubt part of me felt my dad had been disrespected. But more fund
In 1983, an Opening Band Traumatized Me (opens the original)
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My relationship to opening bands got off to a rocky start. It was September 23, 1983. Radio City Music Hall. I was 13. My friend Chris and I were there to catch Rush on their Signals tour. The opening band was an outfit called Marillion. I’d never heard of them. But their set was, well, memorable.The lead singer, dressed in full camouflage, came out toting a machine gun. No doubt it was fake, but it looked real enough to me. He then proceeded to sprint back and forth across the stage like a chic
My Last Puppy (opens the original)
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"Astral Weeks," One Last Time (opens the original)
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