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Remembering Billy "The Mountain" Cairns on his birthday!

 

Billy Cairns was our drummer in the Freelance Vandals who was so adept on those skins that he could have out drummed any of those big shot drummers …Read more

AUGUST 15, 1979  The Freelance Vandals open for John Hiatt @ Hurrahs NYC

 

“Hurrah was a nightclub located at 36 West 62nd Street in New York City from 1976 until 1980. Hurrah was the first…

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Time is a River...I'm in a boat  Life is so funny but I don't get the joke

 

Photo Credit: Paul Colliton

 

The story behind this blog post is rooted in my past…

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Today as I was staring at the calendar in my studio, I remembered that today...November 18th...marks the 19th Anniversary of the Freelance Vandals Rock & Roll Relief concert at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Lindenhurst, NY back in…

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Today is the release date for our new Freelance Vandals album:  LIVE @ THE MUSIC BOX 1978  

 

Ah...1978!  Looking back, I remember that it was a very hard year for the band.…

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Special Thanks to our friends who donated photos for this blog post: Mike Tully - Rose Rosemarie Rizzi Cirillo - Paul O. Colliton Terri Goldstein - Carolyn Olson

 

By 1983, the Freelance…

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Just the other day, I happened across a YouTube video of the Beatles at Shea Stadium and the name Sid Bernstein immediately took centerstage in my mind.  For those of you who never heard of Sid, here's some…

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Freelance Vandals lineup 1981 Left to right: "Diamond" Ray Finch, Jack Finch, Chuck Ciany Billy "the Mountain" Cairns, Mike Adams & Johnny Pierre

 

Over the past couple of years, I’ve been curating…

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Just the other day, I clicked on the TV and, much to my surprise, that cinematic opus HAIR (1979, directed by Milos Forman) appeared on the screen. It’s funny how some random thing can trigger a rush…

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I've always found the end of summer to be a time for looking back on various parts of my life.  A person never knows when a memory from years past will suddenly capture their imagination.  This morning, out of…

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Freelance Vandals drummer deluxe Billy "The Mountain" Cairns 1974

 

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