Tony Fletcher

1 week ago | danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein |Tony Fletcher

Greetings, Jagged Time Lapsers!All good things must eventually come to an end, and today brings the final excerpt of my epic 2003 chat with legendary Slade frontman Noddy Holder. It’s been a real pleasure to revisit this interview again, and to finally put it out there in the world in its entirety for my paid subscribers to dig.

3 weeks ago | danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein |Tony Fletcher

Greetings, Jagged Time Lapsers!A few quick things before we dive back into my epic interview with Slade frontman Noddy Holder:1) Thanks mucho (and welcome aboard!) to all my new subscribers — and to all the folks who have recommended this newsletter via their own Substacks. I am, as always, immensely grateful for your support.

3 weeks ago | danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein |Peter Aaron |Donnell Alexander |Tony Fletcher

Happy Saturday, Jagged Time Lapsers!The baseball season has started, and while this in itself is sadly no longer a source of joy for me — and the news of Opening Day’s MLB.TV outage and the league’s spineless decision to scrub the word “diversity” from its website because it makes white supremacists mad aren’t exactly rekindling the embers of my once-ardent fandom — I still love watching 1976’s The Bad News Bears at this time every year.

1 month ago | danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein |Tony Fletcher

I honestly didn’t know if this was ever going to come together — and I’ll spare you all the reasons why it almost didn’t — but I am finally heading to L.A. to celebrate the publication of Now You’re One Of Us: The Incredible Story of Redd Kross with my co-authors Jeff and Steven McDonald!The festivities will occur Thursday evening at Stories Books & Cafe in Echo Park, my old stomping grounds during my last half-decade as a Los Angeles resident.

2 months ago | danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein |Tony Fletcher

Awww, man… another legend gone. On the same day that and I posted our CROSSED CHANNELS episode on the late, great Curtis Mayfield, Jerry “The Iceman” Butler — Curtis’s childhood friend, Impressions co-founder, sometime partner and fellow Chicago soul giant — just happened to leave these earthly confines.