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It's a Mod, Mod, Mod (Guitar) World

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

Greetings, Jagged Time Lapsers!As many of you know, I love musical instruments almost as much as I love music — and this post is for those of you who feel the same way…One Saturday morning forty-two years ago this month, I walked up Clark Street past Chicago’s legendary Weiners Circle and into Clark Pawners. I was accompanied by my mom, who handed the proprietor eighty bucks in exchange for the little red and black electric six-string hanging from the wall behind the counter.
Goin' Crazee with Noddy Holder (Part 4)

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.
The Hardest Part: Clem Burke, R.I.P.

2 weeks ago | danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein

Man, the hits just keep on coming. It was bad enough waking to yesterday’s horrific tariff-induced market chaos, but last week’s “Liberation Day” insanity at least had me somewhat braced for continued (if utterly unnecessary) reverberations from the Demander-in-Chief’s kamikaze trade war. But what I was not at all prepared for was the gut-punch of Blondie drummer Clem Burke dying at the way-too-young age of 70.
Goin' Crazee with Noddy Holder (Part 3)

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.
Gorilla Face

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.
Slade Inflamed

4 weeks ago | danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -16:04Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Welcome to the 15th episode of the CROSSED CHANNELS podcast — a.k.a. the podcast in which music journalists/obsessives Dan Epstein (the Yank) and Tony Fletcher (the Brit) clash and connect over music from either side of the pond. This time out, our subject is Slade, a British band who are justifiably legendary in their homeland.
Goin' Crazee with Noddy Holder (Part 2)

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

Of all the great mysteries of humans existence, the fact that I somehow managed to live in England during the last four months of 1974 without ever once hearing Slade — or even hearing of them — remains one of the more puzzling.
Goin' Crazee with Noddy Holder (Part 1)

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

“Hello,” I said to the person on the other end of the transatlantic phone call, who had just picked up the phone with an unintelligible grunt. “May I please speak to Noddy Holder?”“This is HEEEEEEE,” the voice responded, hissing like a particularly insouciant snake. It was all I could do not to drop my phone and squeal with excitement like a little girl…The occasion of our interview was a compilation album I was producing at the time called Get Yer Boots On: The Best of Slade.
They'd Come to Claim the Emerald

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

St. Patrick’s Day is here again, which is a great excuse to fire up some Thin Lizzy — not that I ever really require one. I always associate the band with this time of year, anyway; it was in March 1990 that my friend, bandmate and housemate Jason brought home an import Lizzy CD called The Collection home from his gig at Dr. Wax.
Conversations with Esquivel (Part One)

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

The June 1994 release of Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music, a compilation of 1950s and ‘60s recordings by Mexican bandleader Juan García Esquivel, was an absolute revelation for me and so many other listeners with a taste for vintage lounge music.