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Baltimore Positive and WNST are celebrating 28 years, and instead of giving you another list of football players, baseball games, favorite sports somethings or places where I’ve eaten a crab cake – and I’ve got plenty of all of those – I’m going back to where a lot of this really started for me: the music. My Almost Famous youth as a teenage music critic…
For some of us it was Judas Priest and Ted Nugent and for others it was The Cars and Depeche Mode. But the music of our lives and the stories of the bands, shows and songs add some color to our lives four decades later. Leonard Raskin joins Nestor for a 28th Anniversary retrospective at Costas Inn in Dundalk on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour for the backstage tales from the Ratt Poison Tour that went awry…
For some of us it was Judas Priest and Ted Nugent and for others it was The Cars and Depeche Mode. But the music of our lives and the stories of the bands, shows and songs add some color to our lives decades later. Leonard Raskin joins Nestor for a 28th Anniversary retrospective at Costas Inn in Dundalk on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour for the backstage tales from the Ratt Poison Tour that went awry…
The rich history but lack of any real rivalry between Philadelphia and Baltimore continues this week as the Phillies bring their fan base and passion to Camden Yards and will fill the Inner Harbor with tourist dollars in visiting the Orioles. Fresh back from two days at the All Star Game in Philaldelphia, Nestor welcomes old sports executive pal and Baltimore native Micah Buchdahl back to test the waters of Charm City sports history and a Camden Yards visit with friends and family colliding in his twisted fate of professional sports. This guy once roomed with Charlie Eckman on the road and ran an indoor soccer franchise in the MISL…
The rich history but lack of any real rivalry between Philadelphia and Baltimore continues this week as the Phillies bring their fan base and passion to Camden Yards and will fill the Inner Harbor with tourist dollars in visiting the Orioles. Fresh back from two days at the All Star Game in Philaldelphia, Nestor welcomes old sports executive pal and Baltimore native Micah Buchdahl back to test the waters of Charm City sports history and a Camden Yards visit with friends and family colliding in his twisted fate of professional sports. This guy once roomed with Charlie Eckman on the road and ran an indoor soccer franchise in the MISL…
Luke Jones and Nestor wrestle with the gloriously tainted legacy of Hulk Hogan and the Hulkamania era recounting lost memories of youth and life and love of the squared circle of Vince McMahon and the WWF.
Luke Jones and Nestor wrestle with the gloriously tainted legacy of Hulk Hogan and the Hulkamania era recounting lost memories of youth and life and love of the squared circle of Vince McMahon and the WWF.
So how did the kid from Dundalk get his start in local sports journalism before there was a WNST? Well, there was a guy named John Steadman and a place called Hammerjacks and three newspapers competing…
John Feinstein and I had an awkwardly weird and beautiful friendship that had been strengthened by deep conversation and mutual respect over the last two decades since we somehow found ourselves in Brian Billick’s coaching office after games in stadia all over the country during the 2004 season. I know so many of you will miss his work. I will miss him.
Not many bands insisted on inviting then-youthful Baltimore Sun music critic Nestor Aparicio backstage after a concert for an interview – but ZZ Top insisted back in January 1991. Turns out when Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill of the little Texas band welcomed him into their dressing room for a post-show at the Capital Centre, it was all about their work with the Delta Blues Museum. For the record, the most accommodating rock stars ever…
Not many bands insisted on inviting then-youthful Baltimore Sun music critic Nestor Aparicio backstage after a concert for an interview – but ZZ Top insisted back in January 1991. Turns out when Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill of the little Texas band welcomed him into their dressing room for a post-show at the Capital Centre, it was all about their work with the Delta Blues Museum. For the record, the most accommodating rock stars ever…
When Billy Joel had to cancel a concert at the Capital Centre due to illness, he gave Nestor a call to apologize and talk about life and music.
Yeah, this pic is Steven Tyler but the modern Toxic Twins were in the middle of a glorious second run as one of the greatest bands in the world when Nestor Aparicio was the music critic for The Evening Sun in Baltimore. This is the story of how the train kept ‘a rolling on the best comeback in the history of rock and roll.
It’s been a long time since the last time for the Baltimore Orioles and a civic celebration. Our old schooler Leonard Raskin joins Nestor at Costas Inn on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to reminisce and pine away for the next time we have a championship parade in Baltimore for baseball.
Was it ZZ Top, Rush or Ted Nugent? Was it Hulk Hogan as a heel vs. Bob Backlund or Dusty Rhodes coming north? Was it Wayne Gretzky or Magic Johnson or Larry Bird? Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin reminisce about their youth and experiences at Capital Centre and discuss the significance of keeping mementos from their past experiences.
Every special Capital Centre memory of music and sports and childhood wonderment told by Nestor to retrospective author Kevin Leonard at Costas Inn in Dundalk on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.
Capital Centre retrospective book author Kevin Leonard regales Nestor with stories of Landover childhood glory and Abe Pollin from Costas Inn on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour. Everything you ever wanted to know about your favorite red and blue arena on the D.C. beltway where all the stars shined. (You need to get this book!)
Every special Capital Centre memory of music and sports and childhood wonderment told by Nestor to retrospective author Kevin Leonard at Costas Inn in Dundalk on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour. Interviewing ZZ Top, meeting James Brown and getting a backstage tour from Jon Bon Jovi. What a place!
Was it ZZ Top, Rush or Ted Nugent? Was it Hulk Hogan as a heel vs. Bob Backlund or Dusty Rhodes coming north? Was it Wayne Gretzky or Magic Johnson or Larry Bird? Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin reminisce about their youth and experiences at Capital Centre and discuss the significance of keeping mementos from their past experiences.
Capital Centre retrospective book author Kevin Leonard regales Nestor with stories of Landover childhood glory and Abe Pollin from Costas Inn on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour. Everything you ever wanted to know about your favorite red and blue arena on the D.C. beltway where all the stars shined.
It’s been a long time since the last time for the Baltimore Orioles and a civic celebration. Our old schooler Leonard Raskin joins Nestor at Costas Inn on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to reminisce and pine away for the next time we have a championship parade in Baltimore for baseball.
Our old hockey pal and longtime Capitals insider Ed Frankovic catches up with Nestor after far too long to take a walk down Maryland memory lane with Baltimore sports and watching the Orioles try to regroup after 30 years of Angelos misery.
Our old hockey pal and longtime Capitals insider Ed Frankovic catches up with Nestor after far too long to take a walk down Maryland memory lane with Baltimore sports and watching the Orioles try to regroup after 30 years of Angelos misery.
Always one more, you’re never satisfied…
