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Issue 22: Music, pt. 2: Musicians & Fans

March 2015

Letter from the Editor

Chad Perman·
Issue 22: Music, pt. 2: Musicians & Fans
""That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”
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I’ll Cry Instead

Gray Hendryx·
Issue 22: Music, pt. 2: Musicians & Fans
Their youthful energy is a surprise no matter how many times I've witnessed it on screen. The Beatles really were that funny, and their band was as tight as hell. All of that was real.
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Love Me Tender

Sheila O'Malley·
Issue 22: Music, pt. 2: Musicians & Fans
The critical establishment has never truly acknowledged Elvis's gifts as an actor, although his fans know the truth about how wonderful he was onscreen.
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The High-Pitched Giggle of God

Michelle Said·
Issue 22: Music, pt. 2: Musicians & Fans
Like any great piece of art, Amadeus makes us recognize and confront our own foibles and flaws.
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Expressions in Blue

Brad Nelson·
Issue 22: Music, pt. 2: Musicians & Fans
The most established character in the documentary Jazz on a Summer’s Day  is the audience.
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To Live is To Fly

Thomas Lowery·
Issue 22: Music, pt. 2: Musicians & Fans
Townes Van Zandt was hellbent on a heartache, not for its own sake, but because he saw in that heartache the inspiration for artistic creation.
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Why God Made the Movies

Elisabeth Geier·
Issue 22: Music, pt. 2: Musicians & Fans
Paul Simon was never not in my life. It started with Simon & Garfunkel, of course, Bridge Over Troubled Water blaring from...
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Preserve the Moose

Andrew Root·
Issue 22: Music, pt. 2: Musicians & Fans
“Do you feel that playing rock ‘n’ roll music keeps you a child? That is, keeps you in a state...
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The Distance Between Brothers and Strangers

Brody Rossiter·
Issue 22: Music, pt. 2: Musicians & Fans
I first learned how to strum guitar strings and press upon piano keys in high school. By college, I understood...
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I Cannot Pronounce Your Name

Anna Sjogren·
Issue 22: Music, pt. 2: Musicians & Fans
24 July 2006 “Small, over-tired children demand to be taken home by their mums once the full-on racket of Glosoli...
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My My, Just How Much I’ve Missed You

Christopher Fraser·
Issue 22: Music, pt. 2: Musicians & Fans
The Savoy had been struggling for years but when it closed, I felt sadder than I expected. It’s the quiet silencing of an institution that’s forever bound up in my adolescence, the severing of a clean through-line from who I was then to where I am now.
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Lay Me Down in Sheets of Linen

Arielle Greenberg·
Issue 22: Music, pt. 2: Musicians & Fans
On a chunk of gold confetti that you push with pointed toe, you glide around the lit-up, emptied stadium, the...
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