A Rare Interview with Flashback to Never Producer Brian Johnson!

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The Top Five Most Sixties Rock N Roll Movies

A Hard Day’s Night is a stone cold classic. It also inspired a whole slew of sloppy, all-over-the-place imitators that fail to transcend their moment… Pure 1960s insanity - so disposable that that anyone who saw one of these flicks in the theater must have wondered whether they’d imagined the whole thing…

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Surf Rider Wipes Out/Gremmie Out of Control: Surf Record Liner Notes

All of those landlocked Midwestern teens wanted to follow along - so that they could feel like they too were regulars at Dick Dale’s legendary performances at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, California in the summer ‘61.

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Bob Dylan -- Meet Joe Thoreau

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The Ballad of the Green Berets: Before Pop Soured on War

It’s the rare pop song that is so socially conservative - so normal, for lack of a better word - that space and time bend back over and it comes one of the weirdest pop songs of the 1960s.

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Welcome to Season Two!

In case you don’t know - or if you forgot - Flashback to Never works like this: Every episode is like a lost segment of 1960s AM radio. It’s full of all original tunes in classic styles - what the kids today call “oldies.” It’s got a few 30 second commercials in a vintage style - even a station as hep and happening as WF2N needs to pay the bills, after all. And speaking of cool cats - how about all of those on air personalities?

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What is it about Bloomington, Indiana?

Like so many people who love that town, I first moved there when I was 18 as an incoming freshman at Indiana University. The place was a revelation. It was the hometown I wished I had - the hometown I wasn’t actually from.

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The Importance of Being Elvis

What would our world be without Elvis Presley? Flashback to Never sets out to explore that question and more.

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Before the Album Mattered

There was a time when the Beatles were trash - a disposable commodity, with a career life expectancy of a couple of years at the top, if they were really hot. Guitar groups were on their way out, the common wisdom went, and anyway, they were just writing these goofy little teenage love songs.

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Won’t Somebody Think of the Children? - Louie, Louie, The Salad Toss, and Hysteria in the Heartland

Dateline - January 23, 1964. Two well-meaning teens from Frankfort, Indiana have recently come into possession of hard, incontrovertible proof that the heretofore incomprehensible words to the Kingsmen’s “Louie, Louie” are actually descriptive of acts that would make a hooker blush.

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What if the Bay of Pigs had led to a full-on U.S. war in Cuba?

The Bay of Pigs invasion was sunk before it even hit the beach. But hold up a minute -- What if Nixon had won? Not just the election, but the invasion? If Nixon had won the election of 1960, he may not have second guessed the Company’s game plan - he may have drowned any guilt on his conscience re: the subject of spilt blood with a glass or three of his favorite red wine.