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I would love arguing with my late grandfather. He taught me the “greatness” of the Republican Party. “This is the party of Lincoln, son. The party that did great things. Ronald Reagan is the greatest president of all time. You should always consider yourself a Republican.” I always considered myself a moderate though I have […]
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Behind every man is a boy. A boy who hurts, who wants to win to prove his father proud. But yet he is still a boy.
A man has to go through heartache and loss to know what pain is.
He has to go through triumph and victory to know that he doesn’t ever want to taste defeat for it is too bitter a taste for him to suffer through.
But yet, he stands and stares, looking past me, to his father in the stands. Looking for approval, looking for acknowledgment.
I was a young PD and he was the grizzled vet who was VP at Arista and various other record companies before he started AIM Strategies which was one of the first companies to promote triple-A rock stations in 1993 and one of the only record contacts I had when I started working for Rock 101.1 back in 1999. Aim’s ongoing support of classic rock acts was bolstered by the Web site www.classicsdujour.com and the fire of two people, Paul and Elena.
Paul Yeskel was not only a mentor but someone who told me to stand my ground when I needed to but yet tried his damnest to make sure that I had a good point for everything I did. “Don’t tell me you’re not adding it Sean, tell me WHY you aren’t adding it.”
There is a lot of talk of shows coming and going bypassing the Hub city. There are many reasons that it happens. We are known as a walk up city. “What do you wanna do? I dunno, lets go to that show?” Promoters can’t count on walk ups and thus if ticket sales are sucking […]