Just like Big Star, whom Van Duren once auditioned for, he managed to fly under the radar for his entire career.
In fact, he flew so far under the radar that his big claim to fame is being friends with a cult band.
Van Duren’s Are You Serious? is a power-pop classic that definitely deserves your attention.
It’s a lost classic from 1978 which resembles Badfinger, Todd Rundgren and often times, Paul McCartney in vocals and style. He especially sounds like McCartney in “Grow Yourself Up”.
Steve Gets to Put the Hammer Down in ND this Summer! North Dakota will raise their speed limit on Interstates, how fast to you go on the open road and what’s the fastest you’ve ever gone? Plus we dig into artists that actually got BIGGER after leaving their bands and Ryder WINS around of WTF…
Steve Gets SOOOO Close to Touching the Price is Right Wheel: Pee Wee Herman’s bike sold at auction for north of $100K, and we dove into other iconic movie and tv show props, plus gross things done for your job (actors are topping the list) and the Lettuce Club at the U of M has…
Historic events this week from Tom Petty, Weezer, Keith Richards, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger.
Historic events this week from Bruce Springsteen, Paul Westerberg, Led Zeppelin, The Cure and more