I've just embarked upon the geekiest endeavor of my life. While by all appearances and social graces I'm a geek, I've rarely engaged in the pursuits or obsessions that are required of geek culture. I find 99% of sci-fi dull, tedious and silly. I don't play computer or video games. I'm functionally retarded when it comes to math or science, the prospect of spending time playing Dungeons & Dragons f
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Posts by Alan Partlow
Playing The Nerd Circuit
Bo Diddley and Me
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This is a couple of weeks late, but I wanted to post my very personal memory of the day I met Bo Diddley - I was saddened, but not surprised, to hear that Bo Diddley has died. He was a true original. I had much respect for him as a guitarist, not because he was a virtuoso, but because he did one thing really well and he understood the power of rhythm.I had the rare opportunity to meet Bo Diddley,
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You Must Believe In Spring
I was bummed to learn that the great alto saxophonist, Frank Morgan died this past Friday. I came to appreciate Morgan late in his career - if you can call playing in the Warden's Band at San Quentin for thirty years a career - during a particularly dark time in my life. I felt stuck in a job I hated that payed just enough to keep me from being homeless. Most of my friends were either off at colle
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19 @ 16
The music that you listened to when you were seventeen will be the music you listen to when your forty. I don’t know who first said this, but I’ve found it to be accurate. I was looking through my record collection recently and pulling the albums that have meant the most to me. With very few exceptions, they are records that I still listen to twenty-three years later. I wasn’t seventeen ...
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Killjoy Circuit's First Show = Success!
Killjoy Circuit's first club show Saturday night was a success. It certainly topped my expectations. We had a good turnout for Thanksgiving weekend and I think we made over $200 for the Maryland Food Bank. Brian Adam Ant (or is it Brian Adamant?) started off with a nice acoustic set of English major folk. Our set went pretty well with minimal fuck-ups and I managed to make it through without soili
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First Show In Twenty Years
I'm brand new to MOG and can't believe it had escaped my notice until now. After a solid decade without playing music, I decided to pick up the bass again and start a band. That was last summer. Tomorrow night is my first show since, gulp, 1988. My band, Killjoy Circuit, recorded a six-song demo with our man Don Zientara at Inner Ear Studios in Alexandria, VA. A generally positive experie...
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