Bob Matonis, we loved you yeah, yeah yeah.
One of America’s greatest rock n’ roll fans known as “Beatle Bob” Matonis died on July 27 in his native St. Louis, Mo. He was 70 years old. He died of complications from ALS.
Matonis spent decades dancing a mosh-up of the Twist and the Frug in the front rows of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, South by Southwest in Austin, Tx. FitzGerald’s in Berwyn and hundreds of other music clubs. He often wore black suits that matched his black bangs, even as the world spun into global warming,
Matonis said he saw 9,439 days of concerts in a row.
That number was in an e-mail he sent out earlier this year [...]
In the darkest of musical Januarys comes word that Beatle Bob has stopped dancing.
Bob Matonis is the St. Louis-based fan that looks like an Ed Sullivan-era Beatle replete in black suits and black bangs.
Known as “Beatle Bob,” he has spent decades dancing a mosh-up of the Twist and the Frug in the front rows of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, South by Southwest in Austin, Tx. FitzGerald’s in Berwyn and hundreds of other music clubs.
Beatle Bob has claimed to have seen 9,439 days of concerts in a row.
That number was in an e-mail he sent out Sunday night announcing that his streak was coming to an end on Jan. 23, 2023. It [...]
Pat McLaughlin (left) and John Prine at the Grammys (Photo by Fiona Whelan Prine)
Like a magnolia along a winding river, singer-songwriter Pat McLaughlin has blossomed to become one of the most beloved music figures in Nashville, Tn. where he has lived since 1977.
He has released nine solo albums since 1988. He has five co-writes with John Prine on Prine’s breakthrough “The Tree of Forgiveness” record. Two of those songs, “Knockin’ on Your Screen Door” and “Summer’s End” were Grammy nominees for best American Roots Song.
McLaughlin played guitar on Johnny Cash’s final sessions at American [...]
