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Namedropper: I Attended the Led Zeppelin Reunion as a Guest ... of Jimmy Page's Ex-Wife

By Bucks Burnett
Dec 13, 2017

Bucks Burnett has met most of his music idols, and he's not afraid to share the details. In this column, he reveals tales from the front lines and backstage. I found about about the 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion when I received an email with "Led Zeppelin Reunion" in the subject...
Namedropper: The Time I Met Queen Before the Band Ate at Campisi's

By Bucks Burnett
Sep 6, 2017

Bucks Burnett has met most of his music idols. In this column he shares tales from the front lines and backstage. On July 13, 1973, I discovered my new favorite band, Queen, when I purchased its first album at Hit Records in Oak Cliff. For three months, Creem magazine had...
Namedropper: The Forgotten Story of Johnny Seesaw, The Dallas Lounge Punk Golf Pro

By Bucks Burnett
Jun 21, 2017

Dallas is a town that has no ground set aside for the burial of ghosts, local legends and has-beens. There are no memorial statues for the ’80s cult figures, the ’60s underground garage bands that might’ve cut 45s or the ’70s lounge acts whose LPs still fill the boxes at your...
Namedropper: That Time I Played Guitar for Jimmy Page

By Bucks Burnett
Mar 14, 2017

Bucks Burnett has met most of his music idols. In this monthly column he shares tales from the front lines and backstage. When I saw Led Zeppelin in Dallas in early March 1975, during the Physical Graffiti tour, it started a chain of events that ended with the extremely unlikely photograph...
Namedropper: I Gave Andy Warhol a Hot Check in 1985

By Bucks Burnett
Feb 7, 2017

His tombstone is unnerving in its stark simplicity. It bears his name, his birth date, and the date of his death: Feb. 22, 1987, 30 years ago this month. There's no list of accomplishments, nothing artsy or clever or ironic. That's all you get. Andy Warhol once said that he...

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