Ahem,
[EDIT**].
Scott's a nice fellow and writes for a local paper; I was pleased to see him thank me in a book he published about John Lennon's Uncle, Charlie, who appeared on my cable show as have many other notable individuals.
http://books.google.com/books?vid=I...scott+wheeler&sig=ZCKQ6A3ddY_zGMCjQ1TH2r9itV8
Scott has a "custom published" book; I'm listed as a contributor in 7 international books - work that I get paid for - not something I have to pay to publish. Lucy Lu, you were saying? How did some of the publishers hire me? My cable program.
My cable show is one of the most established in New England; it takes a huge investment and a lot of hard work, something the hacks here have no clue about. We are on about 17 stations in the New England area and more stations around the U.S.A. If I had more time we could be on about 500 U.S. stations and that is in the future as DVDs make bringing more stations onboard cost effective. The good works we have done for homeless animals and other people in need are a plus along with the hundreds of book authors we've interviewed (we as I have multiple hosts) from just about every single major publisher over the past 11 years, having started in Cable back in 1979 - one of the originals in this region, is something I am very proud of.
Listening to people for 359 hours is intense - but one can learn quite a lot listening. Our guests have included Senator George McGovern, Mayor Menino, major songwriters, singers, film directors, athletes like Jerry Remy, Johnny Pesky, Curt Schilling and everyday people who have contributed to society. Pug Ugly and Lucy Lu are not scheduled to appear - they aren't fit to shine the shoes of some of my guests.
The people who have molested this thread don't seem to realize God gave you two ears and one mouth. Because they think their two hands pecking away 1 word at a time on a keyboard make them "special". Whatever...
And what have Pug Ugly and Lucy Lu contributed: Attacks on hard working people. The more they swift boat, the more I will NOT do a John Kerry. I'm happy to show these cowards who post with no real name a resume I am happy to call mine.
Lucy Lu has
[EDIT]. She and Pug Ugly have just been reported to the moderators for posting libel from the shadows. It is easy to attack a man who has worked with Buddy Guy, Alvin Lee with George Harrison, who has successfully worked at numerous jobs in the media over the past 30 years including representing a number of major producers, engineers and classic rock artists.
The people on this board who know me know that I have more articles published - and paid for - than most
legitimate writers in the Boston area. The TV specials "Paul Sorvino: An Evening Of Song" and the follow-up with Marilyn Horne were PBS specials when I was Director of Research for North American Media in 1995.
Fascinating - people with no names like Pug Ugly and Lucy Lu want to stab a man in the back, belittle the thousands of articles I have written over the past decade (written and paid for), my established record label
with discs that fetch big bucks on eBay and Gemm (Moe Tucker of the Velvet Underground; involvement with
music from Marty Balin of The Starship; Spirit, Alvin Lee, etc. etc.)
While at the TV company I was flown to Seattle for the Sorvino special (taping two nights out there because the fees were lower; we stayed at that Four Seasons hotel that you can see in the film Disclosure), flown to Philly, West Palm Beach and New York multiple times. The morons here have no clue about what real people do in a real industry. A LOT more exciting than being a "Music Director" in Kansas I can assure you. A lot more work but a LOT more enlightening getting the heck out of this city and the truly petty little people who are too cowardly to put their names into print when they go on their incessant attacks.
As the CEO of North American Media said "Joe's forgotten more than most people will ever learn."
Like it or not, losers with no names but fake handles and allegiance to a corrupt program director, my work has influenced this region. Bobby Hebb tours Germany and Japan (to sold out houses) and returns telling me how my writings are popular in those regions; Oedipus returns from France and mails me an article (which he translates from the French) "The Five Crazy Geniuses of Rock & Roll" which include Frank Zappa, yours truly,
Captain Beefheart, etc.
Again - you can read this on my website; I only post this information here after the Swift Boaties do their thing.
We've seen what one underhanded individual attempted to do when he couldn't get to me, it was vile and despicable. Pug Ugly and Lucy Lu should be banned for the b.s.
But so it goes. I have a resume, they don't, and there is a stack of writing I have to get done right now so go have lunch with a radio station owner who will probably never hire you, Lucy Lu and stop your obsession with me. The anti-gay posts and the anti-Var posts show why you can't get hired in this industry.
There you go, Swift Boaties. Now send yer resumes out to Ed Perry, get rejected, and come in here and vent your anger at me.
[EDIT]. So she vents in here.
"Joe is the hardest working man in Boston Rock & Roll" Oedipus at Pete Shelley Dinner. He meant it, even though we were at odds.
"Boston's hardest working underground impresario" The Boston Globe.
One of Boston's 5 best bands - Playboy Magazine
(Playboy used to post the Top 5 bands from cities around the U.S.A. My music - not my band name - my name - listed in the Top 5; a little bit more harder to obtain than a "win" in the fixed WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble).
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