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April 23, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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The sudden, recent news of the passing of Greg Ham, saxophonist/flautist and founding member of Australian rock band Men at Work, comes at a strange and sad time. Yesterday in fact marked the 30th anniversary of the release of the band's breakthrough debut, Business As Usual, in America. More importantly, though, it's the sad loss of a figure who contributed a lot to early '80s rock music. Ham, who was 58, was the spice that set Men at Work's hard driving, New Wave-inspired sounds apart from

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Categories: News Tags: Back Tracks, Men at Work

February 4, 2010 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Funk legend Nile Rodgers, a frequent user of Twitter, has spent the past few weeks talking about his ongoing process to locate and catalogue the many demo tapes he's found over the years. While a firm release plan has yet to be implemented, I'm getting the impression he's going to release some of them for free. So if you do that whole Twitter thing, follow him so you can get the scoop when it happens. (Of course I'll be posting when anything is released, too.) This isn't particularly

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