POP-A-LOOZA: Talk Talk: My Brief Career As A Freelance Interviewer

 

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is a look back at my brief career as a freelance interviewer, a tale told under the title "Talk Talk."

A handful of my old interviews have been reprinted on this very blog. As you click around the Boppin' grounds, you can find my interviews with Cyril Jordan of the Flamin' Groovies, Gary Frenay and Paul Armstrong of the Flashcubes, Nuggets visionary Lenny Kaye, Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders, Sal Valentino of the Beau Brummels, Dick Dodd of the Standells, Barry Tashian of the Remains, Cathy Kensington (Cathy VanPatten) of the Poptarts, Maura Kennedy of the Kennedys, Danny Bonn of the Dead Ducks, and Charlie Robbins of the Tearjerkers. You can also read a piece I wrote about the Skeletons, based upon an interview with the group's bassist Lou Whitney. And my lengthy histories of power pop and bubblegum music incorporate interviews with a ton of performers, producers, and pundits.

There are still a bunch more of these old interviews stored in my records, and some of them may yet see the light of day again. In the mean time, an overview of the times I talked to the Ramones, Joan Jett, Greg Kihn, and others serves as the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.

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