The Great Ganesha

[Originally on Blogcritics] Sometime in the 1980s (or thereabouts), I heard ‘De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da’ for the first time. It was on my father’s Sony stereo system, which was covered with a custom-made plastic case and occupied an exalted position on his bedroom shelf. I had just been given “stereo privileges” [...]

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As promised, for people in the Bay Area – The Police will be playing at the McAfee Coliseum in Oakland, CA on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 at 6.30pm. Tickets went on sale at 10am on Sunday (2/25) on Ticketmaster. Did you get yours yet? If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my [...]

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[Originally appeared in Thirsty Magazine here and crossposted at Desicritics.org here.] Shoreline Amphiteatre, Mountain View, CA. October 10th, 2006. As we walked into a packed, sold-out stadium, you could almost smell the excitement in the air. Judging from the miles-long line of cars extending on to the freeway and the throng entering the venue, this [...]

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Continues from Day 1. We were greeted at our entrance into the park with a common sight. Then we walked by the banjo twanging and rhythmic fiddling of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. The only appropriate response to these guys is this one. But we didn’t stick around there for too long. We were headed [...]

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So this last weekend, the RXGeek and I were jogging in the Golden Gate Park and realized that the one of the biggest bluegrass festivals in the country was going on in the park, right under our very noses! Well, we live half a block away, so I guess we have pretty long noses. Ok, [...]

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