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The Go Gos

The Go Gos were supposed to have a reunion tour this summer. Punk was not my thing at the time, but a very close friend from high school Robbie Seidman penned one of the Belinda Carlisle's solo hits, Summer Rain and so I have a fondness for the band that is apart from their other successes.  Seideman who had gone to Harvard and played tennis never lost his love for music (at my house they were still impersonating the The Who) came to Hollywood and died way too young. Other members of his coterie from high school went on to be show runners of the West Wing, the head of Sound Exchange.  Things that now could be on the Wayback Machine now seem to be merging into the present as all the days, and now the weeks and months, and soon the years, run into each other in the time of Covid.