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Jottings from a pop culture junkie

Anyone who was a music fan in NYC between February 12, 1974 and January 22, 2004 has their own Bottom Line stories. I get to share a few of mine in “Positively Fourth and Mercer: The Inside Story of New York’s Iconic Music Club” (Backbeat Books), an oral history by Bottom Line co-founder (and already …

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January 1973. In Boston to see David Bromberg at Club Passim. The opening act is Bruce Springsteen, of whom I write in the Village Voice, “Springsteen’s band was inordinately loud, which worked to his benefit by covering up his vocals and lyrics.” Summer 1974. At a pool party hosted by the publisher of Record World …

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