Frank Mastropolo
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Frank Mastropolo is the author of Fillmore East: The Venue That Changed Rock Music Forever; Ghost Signs: Clues to Downtown New York's Past; and Ghost Signs 2: Clues to Uptown New York's Past, available May 2022.
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Bill Graham: 'I Don't Pay for Limousines'
I interviewed more than 90 of Fillmore East’s musicians and crew members, including 19 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, to write Fillmore East: The Venue That Changed Rock Music Forever. In a coming months I’ll release a few excerpts about the iconic New York concert hall.
By Frank Mastropolo4 years ago in Beat
Top 11 Songs From ‘The Many Saints of Newark’
“I listen to a lot of music all the time… A lot of these things are dredged up from memory. I’ll go, ‘Oh, that was a really good song.’ Or I’ve kept this catalog in my head of so-and-so I’ve always wanted to use. And then a movie situation will come up in which they fit very well.” – David Chase, writer and producer of The Sopranos
By Frank Mastropolo4 years ago in Beat
