special for Halloween, here's my original reviews of all the Saw films, except for the last couple, which sucked anyway
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freelance music-writer and journalist for 40+ years; author of the 2018 beer-table book Gord Downie; owner of the website earofnewt.com; check out over 500 of my audio interviews with rock legends since 1982 on my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/c/earofnewt
special for Halloween, here's my original reviews of all the Saw films, except for the last couple, which sucked anyway
31.10.2025 23:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0happy Halloween to British horror king Clive Barker, who didn't mind posing with me, even when I had a perm
31.10.2025 23:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy #Halloween to you too, #RobertEnglund
And congrats on getting that star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!
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25 years ago I wrote a feature story on #Vancouver bug wrangler #BradMcDonald for #Halloween
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40 years ago today Autograph guitarist Steve Lynch called me from a tour stop in Milwaukee and told me that Van Halen used to leave him the brown M&Ms
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my list of cool stuff to do in Vancouver this weekend
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remembering guitar great Peter Green, born on this day in 1946 in London, England
Here's what his former bandmate Mick Fleetwood told me about him:
"He was the guy."
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my list of cool concerts to see in Vancouver next month
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happy 72nd birthday to B-52s guitarist Keith Strickland, who once told me that the Cramps' Lux Interior got them to release "Rock Lobster" as a single
"It was like nothing else out there."
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good to hear!
27.10.2025 02:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0my list of cool stuff to do in Vancouver this week
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40 years ago today I called up Dave Faulkner of the Hoodoo Gurus down in L.A. where the Australian band was touring behind its Mars Needs Guitars album
26.10.2025 05:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0just posted the full audio of my 2003 interview with Neil Osborne of 54-40, for all you 54-40 fans out there
26.10.2025 04:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0tomorrow It: Welcome to Derry premieres on HBO, so Pennywise the Clown will be back
Here's my exclusive interview with the original Pennywise, Tim Curry, from 1990
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just posted my 2000 article on the Vancouver-shot horror flick #Flight180 for the first time
Shortly after publication the film's name was changed to #FinalDestination
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on this day in 1996 I did the last of my five interviews with #GordDownie
It turned out to be one of the articles I'm most proud of
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remembering former #Streetheart vocalist #KennyShields, born on this day in 1947 in Nokomis, Saskatchewan
Back in '83 he told me that John Lennon was his biggest idol
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20 years ago today Judas Priest played Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum so I took my buddy Scott Vye 'cause he wanted a t-shirt
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Nothing says heavy-metal at Halloween like Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie comin' at ya with a fearsome grimace, taloned fingers reaching out, and a blood-drenched hatchet ready to cave in your skull.
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my list of cool stuff to do in #Vancouver this weekend
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just posted the full audio of my 2003 interview with Vancouver rocker Rich Hope of the band John Ford
Those guys kicked ass!
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remembering guitar great Leslie West, born on this day in 1945 in Queens, New York
Here's what he told me about Ozzy Osbourne back in 2002
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14 minutes on the phone with #DefLeppard guitarist #SteveClark during the #Hysteria tour
If you enjoy this, please consider subscribing to hear over 500 other uncut, one-on-one interviews I did with rockers since 1982
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remembering Shannon Hoon from Blind Melon, who passed away 30 years ago today
21.10.2025 21:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0happy 84th birthday to guitar legend Steve Cropper, who I was totally psyched to interview back in 2019
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just posted the first article I ever wrote during my 13-year run as the Vancouver correspondent for Fangoria Magazine
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good news for Vancouver Rush freaks
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here's some horror for ya
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my list of cool stuff to do in Vancouver this week
Still looking for an exclusive sponsor of these twice-weekly posts if anybody's interested
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remembering Chuck Berry, born on this day in 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri. Here's what I wrote when he passed away in 2017:
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