A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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25: Anything for Art!

25: Anything for Art!

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John Mendelssohn
Apr 01, 2010
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My band’s latest manager arranged for us to perform in Reno, at a club next door to a laundromat on the town’s outskirts. Three and a half years before, I’d been much impressed when, performing at a White Front department store-sponsored concert at the Hollywood Bowl, Pete Townshend had hurled a mic stand like a spear at a stagehand who’d displeased him…

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