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Waking Up at Woodstock

Yasgur’s Farm was like a battlefield in ruins. The few weary soldiers who survived somehow mustered the strength to shuffle up the hill as t

On this day in the year 2001, 13,238 babies were born in the USA.

by John Hanti Excerpt from the forthcoming book, Escaping Gravity, by John Hanti (with Steven Acker). As those babies were being...

MISSING THE BEATLES: The Legendary Lost and Stolen Beatles Tapes

by John Hanti with Steven Acker From their forthcoming book, "Escaping Gravity." PROLOGUE: Like a million other teenage musicians in this...

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An Evening With Les Paul at His Legendary House of Sound

By John Hanti with Steven Acker AS A TEENAGER, I managed to escape the gravity of small-town Pennsylvania to build a career in the music...

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Learning the Art of Production from the Great Roy Cicala

BY JOHN HANTI with Steven Acker When you put too much of yourself into a production, it becomes your production and your music, not the...