In This Episode

On this episode of The Ric And Dan Show, Alex Gray of Waterfront Concerts and KANÙ fame comes along to talk about the power of music, surprising event costs, and Ushuaia (in Orono, not Argentina).

We start the episode with the boys drinking a whole gallon of water. Ric wants to know if the old stories of Bob Dylan and Van Halen’s contracts are true— and Alex spills all he knows, and all the moments where he had to hide in sound equipment cases. The iconic “We Are Bangor” gives Alex his highly deserved flowers, and he talks about the late Ozzy Osbourne and all the artists that Waterfront just missed out on. But even so, they talk about the musical miracles that he’s pulled off as well. He touches on bare-knuckle fighting City Hall, watching others do the same, and college kids, who “still know how to gather and burn it all down.” The guys ask about KANÙ’s origins and its pivotal manner as a space for music, during a time when there wasn’t even space to breathe.

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