Vox Pop - Music and pop culture news and reviews by Rick DeYampert
September 2009 Archives
Onslaught media invade America's gas pumps
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. used to say that he wrote novels in order to clean out all of the pop culture junk that had collected in and stuck to his brain.
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Illness doesn't keep guitarist down
In recent months, local musician Rick Simpson would take his guitar and perform for recovering stroke patients at a rehab center. Never mind that the 61-year-old Simpson was himself a client at the center, battling lymphoma and recovering from having a pacemaker put in him.
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Danny Pittle
Full-time musician and full-time Stetson University student.
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Best Bets for Sept. 18, 2009
SATURDAYNashville ax man picks on guitar expoLots of pickin' will be happening at this weekend's Guitar Tech Expo, including some by a protege of Chet Atkins. The expo will feature a workshop by Nashville guitarist...
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Cartoonist's 'No Towers' casts disturbing shadows
One of the most curious scenes ever penned by cartoonist Art Spiegelman depicts a guy painting the Twin Towers -- New York City's World Trade Center -- engulfed in flames.
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