Category Archives: Legend

A Clockwork Orange – 9th Symphony

May 15, 2012 – 5:37 pm
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HillBilly Ranch Bar Boston

May 14, 2012 – 2:45 pm

As you get old you forget. as you get older, you are forgotten – anon I know that I didn’t come up with that quote, because I haven’t really forget everything yet and the other day I was reminiscing about Lost Boston with a few old-timers at the bar of Jacob Wirth’s. “Remember when they [...]

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House of The Rising Sun – Bob Dylan 1962

April 26, 2012 – 7:46 pm

Fifty years later. The LP BOB DYLAN changed our world. I was ten years old. It was arranged by Dave Van Ronk. The Pope of Greenwich Village.

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Steve McQueen Wanted Dead Or Alive

April 19, 2012 – 10:58 am

Steve McQueen achieved national recognition for his role as Josh Randall in the TV western WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE. The King of Cool parlayed his anti-hero persona in this series to win a lead in THE GREAT ESCAPE, which catapulted his name into the bright lights of Hollywood. His portrayal of a rebel sold well [...]

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Two Fingers of Blame

April 16, 2012 – 3:05 pm

Several years ago the legend of the Titanic gained two new insights with the disclosure from an ancestor of ocean liner’s second officer that the ship had been doomed by a steering error by the helmsman. The panicked mistake was overruled by the first officer according to his fellow officer too late to avoid the [...]

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