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“If you’re going to become one of the immortals, a god, then you have to die. That’s the tragedy”: The epic story of the unsung genius behind The Doors

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By James McNair
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“The beauty of the LA scene in late 1965-1966 was that every band was totally unique”, Jac Holzman, the man who signed The Doors to Elektra, told this writer in 2007. “Morrison hadn’t ignited in the first three Doors performances I witnessed. It was the musicians in the band that kept me coming back.
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“I don’t belong on TV, I should be in a circus!”: How ZZ Top’s Afterburner continued one of the most unlikely success stories of the 80s

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By James McNair
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ZZ Top posing for a photograph in 1985. In 1996, while discussing ZZ Top’s career-reviving MTV surge circa Eliminator more than a decade earlier, Billy Gibbons was asked if he and bandmate Dusty Hill had considered shaving off their beards and becoming Duran Duran. “For about this long,” replied the guitarist, holding his thumb and forefinger a smidgeon apart.
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“I don’t belong on TV, I should be in a circus!”: How ZZ Top’s Afterburner continued one of the most unlikely success stories of the 80s

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By James McNair
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What’s happening at ApCal? See the transformed outdoors music venue in Madera Of the businesses Darren Schmall has cultivated over the years, it’s the concert venue he sort of fell into. “I had no idea that I would be in the …
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