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The blog of Dan Dougan - a poet/musician, raised in Ohio, of Western Pennsylvanian mixed ethnic stock. He is a recovering Catholic, alcoholic and addict. His claim to fame is having owned and operated a live music nightclub known as Stache & Little Brother’s. The blog relates tales of those years and then some.

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Little Brother Blogs · 1Y ago

“Almost There” holiday shows!

We just finished the Xmas program of “Almost There” which will air on WCBE 90.5 fm on Dec. 24 at 2pm. Our first show of 2011 airs at 5pm on New Year’s Day. These shows combine my yarns about musicians who played “there” with music that highlights those tales. There’s also great adult-friendly kid mu

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Little Brother Blogs · 1Y ago

Gentleman John Corbett

A genuinely emotive country hunk, you’ve heard his voice inviting you to Applebee’s, “the neighborhood place” that’s usually located in a strip mall parking lot. And you know that he, John Corbett, and his golden all-American movie/TV/Hollywood star probably wouldn’t be caught dead there, but he did

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Little Brother Blogs · 2Y ago

Nice guys finish crass

John Mayer has been shamed lately for his explicit logorrhea, and perhaps rightly so, but when he played Little Brother’s on the eve of success, he was quite polite and gracious. I had one brief conversation with John in the parking lot after the show. But in that short talk he thanked me and my [..

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Little Brother Blogs · 2Y ago

Regarding Henry

Henry Rollins, as I knew him when he played Stache’s, was practically two different people. There was the punk “rawk” star that had led Black Flag and come to us as the frontman of the Rollins Band. He was an incredibly focused individual, not given to idle conversation. When he arrived to play a gi

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Little Brother Blogs · 2Y ago

Frequently Asked Questions, Part II

Why was the stage at Little Brother’s so damn high? We didn’t set out to have a four-foot high stage. We had designed it at 3’4″ to accommodate some really big bass cabinets without those monsters touching the stage-top’s bottom and causing sound-reinforcement nightmares. But the fire inspector said

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Little Brother Blogs · 2Y ago

Frequently Asked Questions, Part I

Question: Why did you move from the “Olde North” (2404 N. High St.) to the longer portion of the Short North? Answer: Humpty Dumpty didn’t jump, he was pushed. George Sicaris, my first and favorite Greek landlord was told by the city to fix up the buildings housing us and Monkey’s Retreat, or tear

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Little Brother Blogs · 2Y ago

I’m all ears

I like to listen. Especially to great live music in an intimate setting. Jules Shear’s songs sold millions when recorded by Cyndi Lauper or the Bangles, but my wife and I shared him with a few dozen others at Little Brother’s. After politely dodging the advice and appreciation of barfly music expert

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Little Brother Blogs · 2Y ago

Mississippi Lunch

On an ordinary weekday in 1987, a large man with a bullhorn and a thick Russian-Israeli accent blocked traffic at the corner of 15th and High Street, the busiest corner on the Ohio State University campus. He bellowed out to students and other passers-by, “All the way from England: Badfinger! Very g

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Little Brother Blogs · 2Y ago

Mojo & me

The son of a North Carolina radio DJ, “psychobilly godfather,” serious road warrior and armchair politician*, Mojo Nixon and I go way back. I saw him at one of Curt Schieber’s “No Other Presents” concerts at the Newport. He was opening for the Pogues, still paired with Skid Roper on the washtub bas

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Little Brother Blogs · 2Y ago

Pop! Quiz?

Hey kids… Pop quiz! What show sold out the fastest in the history of Stache & Little Brother’s? Nirvana? The Ventures? Tiny Tim and Camper Van Beethoven? No. Nope. Nada. It wasn’t “Jim Beam presents Lucinda Williams and Joe Ely,” Smashing Pumpkins or Sun Ra either. It was… Daughtry. In seven minutes

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