A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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A Legend In His Own Minefield
A Legend In His Own Minefield
My Big Boss Beat, and What It Won Me

My Big Boss Beat, and What It Won Me

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John Mendelssohn
Feb 06, 2015
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A Legend In His Own Minefield
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My Big Boss Beat, and What It Won Me
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I wasn’t even out of the cinema in which I saw A Hard Day’s Night before resolving to parlay my experience as a percussionist in my junior high school orchestra into a career as the American Ringo. I recruited a bunch (a very large bunch!) of Santa Monica High School classmates (lots of people I hoped to make like me) to be my fellow members of The Fogm…

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