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There isn’t a lot I can say about Alex Chilton that hasn’t been said already.  Chilton, influenced me more than John Lennon, more than Paul Westerberg, more than most.  He accomplished the very things I have always hoped to accomplish; to sit in a room with three or four other people write songs intended to [...]

I might never have written a note were it not for the bands Jim Dickinson worked with – Big Star, The Replacements, The Stones.  I know I never would have learned to record myself if it weren’t for him.
I never had a nice couch, but I’ve spent hundreds of hours listening back in the control [...]

John Velghe’s rock band, The Mendoza Lie, sets about recording their debut EP.