By Joran Oppelt, Creative Loafing
Part of me didn’t want to comment on this subject. Part of me was content to just let it slip away and sit back while the rest told their side of things. One day, my grandchildren would gather at my feet and I would ramble on about how “Grandpa used to be a musician.” But, recently, my friend and die-hard local music supporter, Julie Garisto, interviewed me via e-mail for a piece she’s working on for the Soundcheck blog about the past 10 years in the local music scene. And answering her questions got me thinking about the past decade — how I entered the scene around 1998 and fell in love with it — and about my time as a musician, promoter and all-around local music supporter. Golly, I even won a Best of the Bay award from Creative Loafing in 2003 for “Best Local Cheerleader for the Music Scene,” an award that I’m still hoping was tongue-in-cheek.
Full story: http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/12/17/the-decade-in-local-music/
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[...] http://www.creativetampabay.com/2010/01/13/the-decade-in-tampa-bay-music/One day, my grandchildren would gather at my feet and I would ramble on about how “Grandpa used to be a musician.” But, recently, my friend and die-hard local music supporter, Julie Garisto, interviewed me via e-mail for a piece she’s … [...]