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Organist for Boston @RedSox games at Fenway Park. I also do a bunch of other music stuff.

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Joined February 2009

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Josh Kantor

1 year

Career achievement unlocked: "Bohemian Rhapsody" Arranged For One Semi-Rehearsed Ballpark Organ And 113 Un-Rehearsed Kazoos (Conducted By Reverend Mary, Portland Sea Dogs Broadcaster @EmmaTieds , Musicians @RyanMontbleau & @HilkenMancini , And Comedian @JoshGondelman ). Part 1 of 3.

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Josh Kantor

10 months

When you play a Nick Lowe song on the Fenway organ and then find out that Nick Lowe WAS AT THE GAME

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5 years

Here are the 749 song requests I played on the Fenway organ in 2018 (click/tap to enlarge). Thanks for making the best job be also the weirdest job.

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BREAKING: Boston sports fans finally rejoice after courageously enduring city's excruciating 14-week championship drought.

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5 years

Happy 100th anniversary of the greatest moment in baseball history.

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6 years

In 2006, I played "Happy Together" at a Sox game. The songwriter, Alan Gordon, heard it on the broadcast & sent me this beautiful letter. Alan succumbed to cancer not long after, which led me to cherish the letter even more. #tbt

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3 years

Today is the 1,500th consecutive Fenway Park Red Sox game I've had the privilege and honor of playing the organ music for. I'm filled with gratitude for my very supportive colleagues and for everyone who's ever offered encouragement or enjoyed something I played.

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7 years

Having the best job sometimes means having the weirdest job. Here are the song requests I played at Fenway in 2017.

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7 months

I played these 693 song requests this season. You're welcome and/or I apologize.

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3 years

It's a sad day. Jerry Remy is, without question, one of the most important figures in the 121-year history of the Red Sox.

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2 years

My lady-friend just finished her longtime dream of hiking all 2,194 miles of the Appalachian Trail. My joy and admiration for her are off the charts.

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7 years

This is the 1,200th consecutive Red Sox game at Fenway Park for which I've played organ. Still a great joy & honor.

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9 months

Only one of these players has ever had a scoreless pitching appearance in a game followed by a walk-off grand slam in the next game.

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¡PABLO REYES WALK OFF! 🇩🇴

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5 years

Get your magnifying glass; here are the 873 song requests I played on the Fenway organ in 2019. Thank you to all whose participation/encouragement makes my dream job so fun and weird.

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Thank you, Red Sox, for getting me another step closer to my dream of being a Liberace impersonator.

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3 years

Pitching a new design idea at the staff meeting today.

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5 years

Fenway organ, 10th inning: Silver Jews, "The Wild Kindness."

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2 years

I got pinned (again). 20 years of not being smart enough to figure out how to quit or get fired.

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2 years

🎤🎶 "the kind you find in a grocery store" 🎤

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3 years

Am I allowed to have today's Boston Sunday Globe crossword puzzle as my epitaph? h/t @adamxii

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2 years

Happy Opening Day! Here's a throwback to the most accurate headline in journalism history.

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4 years

Thelonious: born July 1, 2004; died November 1, 2019. "Best cat ever." -me

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10 months

Which Jesus Lizard song should I play for tonight's Marlins starting pitcher Jesús Luzardo?

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Josh Kantor

6 years

15 years ago today, I was summoned to Fenway Park for a callback audition that culminated with a Red Sox executive asking, "And are you available for all 81 home games?" 🎹⚾

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2 years

If there's ever been a better singer than Mavis Staples, I haven't heard them. The thrill and profoundness of playing "I'll Take You There" with Mavis last night was beyond description.

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3 years

You're crazy if you think I'm not covering this Linda Lindas song at the next Red Sox home game.

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This is the first band I will be RUNNING to see once I get my second shot:

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5 years

You could tell me that this is a map of a section of Plymouth, Massachusetts, or you could tell me it's the tracklist of a James Taylor album. Either way, I would believe you.

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5 years

TSA Agent: What's this? Me: It's an accordion. TSA Agent: OK, sounds good. Me: Not when I play it.

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4 years

Please make sure my tombstone mentions that, for one Hanukkah night in 2019, I was in Yo La Tengo.

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Josh Kantor

6 years

Looks like I'll be putting on pants next week. #WorldSeries

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6 years

Airline attendant: I'm sorry, Mr. Fogerty, we have no more first-class seating on this flight. John: (sigh) Put me in coach.

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5 years

Make sure my obituary mentions that I was the world's first organist for professional downhill ice skating.

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3 years

7/28/96: twenty-five years ago today, me and Mary Jane got wedded. To each other. So far, we're off to a great start.

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3 years

Fenway organ, 1st inning: "Under My Thumb." 🥁

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5 years

Call me old-fashioned, but I'm not a fan of these new Major League Baseball rules for 2019.

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5 years

Closing out the 2019 Red Sox season with Boyz II Men's "End of the Road" on the Fenway organ. See you back at the ballpark in 186 days.

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2 years

If you like that I do this, be glad that I'm not smart enough to figure out how not to do it. 751 songs this year.

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3 years

My brother and I waved to each other on Sunday night.

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3 years

Very pleased to commemorate this with an organ rendition of "We Got the Beat" in the 1st inning at Fenway Park tonight.

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3 years

We are so EXCITED to announce that we will be … inducted into the 2021 Rock Hall of Fame!! 🤩💖🎶 Women have always been a vital part of the ever changing music business and we are so proud to have our success story honored and recognized by the @rockhall and our wonderful fans!

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Josh Kantor

2 years

I have a six-month residency playing covers at a little outdoor venue on the other side of the river. Come say hi.

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1 year

Today's Red Sox game starts at 4:10pm, but if you feel like coming early, I'll be playing all Stevie Wonder songs on the organ from 2:40 to 3:31.

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1 year

Happy 73rd birthday, Stevie! Trying to pick my favorite Stevie Wonder album is like trying to pick my favorite kid, if I had, like, 30 super awesome kids.

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5 years

"the kind you find in a grocery store"

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8 years

Can't believe I get paid to play organ and watch baseball. I'm giving my pay for tonight's game to the @CSGV Coalition To Stop Gun Violence.

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6 years

"the kind you find in a grocery store"

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1 year

Does anybody else have that nightmare where you show up for work and everything’s different? #WinterClassic

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5 years

The Super Bowl kickoff always fills me with such excitement and anticipation because I know we're finally less than four hours away from talking about baseball for the next nine months.

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6 years

I'd like to thank the Red Sox for scoring 15 runs tonight so that I had a legitimate excuse to play David Bowie's "TVC 15" at the end of the game.

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8 years

1st inning, Fenway organ: Prince's "Little Red Corvette"

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1 year

Back on my bullshit.

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5 years

Tour update: my host in Northampton hand-stitched these Steely Dan pillows and made me sleep with them.

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4 years

Imagine my surprise at learning from this recent Adult Swim video that Steve Albini knows of me and knows of (and apparently appreciates) my ridiculous ethos. h/t @JeremySparks

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4 years

Yes; everything sucks, but my Saturday plans just got an upgrade when I found this on the sidewalk.

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1 year

Kicking off Fenway's Nurse Appreciation Night with an organ rendition of The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated."

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27 days

Thanks, Manny, for coming to my hotel lobby gig tonight.

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3 years

Felt good to get back this year to doing the dumb thing I do. Thanks to everyone who submitted one of these 705 requests that I played. And if your name/band/song appears on this list, congratulations and/or I apologize.

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6 years

Closed out the Red Sox' World Series Game 2 victory with Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good," Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' "The Fenway," and @TheCribs ' "I Gotta Go to L.A." on the Fenway organ.

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5 years

For reasons that no one understands, I'm speaking and playing at the Smithsonian this Saturday.

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6 years

1 year ago: Maybelle Blair (Peoria Redwings) & Shirley Burkovich (Rockford Peaches) of 1943-1954 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. They've visited 100s of ballparks & said I was the 1st to play their fight song. I cried. Then they said there's no crying in baseball

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8 years

Before the start of tonight's game, I was named the 2016 Red Sox Employee of the Season. I am VERY VERY humbled.

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Josh Kantor

6 years

I try not to post too much about my gigs, but I have this six-month residency playing covers at a little outdoor venue on the other side of the river starting soon. Come say hi.

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7 years

Fenway organ, 1st inning: Grant Hart-penned "Books About UFOs" by Hüsker Dü.

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3 years

My brother burned Fenway PA Announcer Henry Mahegan and me onto an 1896 wax cylinder for his Edison phonograph.

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5 years

Infinite thanks to the wonderful folks at the National @BaseballHall of Fame and Museum for showing me the archives and letting me swing the bat Ted Williams used on August 11, 1955, to collect his 2,000th hit.

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3 years

Fenway organ, 1st inning: Nanci Griffith, "I Wish It Would Rain."

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2 years

Happy 5th anniversary of the time I put a ring on Mavis’ finger.

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3 years

I’m in the post-vax observation area. They’re showing a video of highlights from Opening Day at Fenway three weeks ago, so I’m listening to myself play while waiting 15 minutes to make sure I don’t pass out. It’s very surreal.

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6 years

Last year, I played 380 different songs by request at Fenway. This year, I’ve played 401 so far, and we're not even at the All-Star break yet. #YouPeopleAreTryingToKillMe

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5 years

My mom always said I was her favorite organist, until we met Booker T. Jones last night.

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6 years

Oh man, I wish this Barnes vs. Barnes match-up was happening at Fenway so I could play "Fish Heads."

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6 years

I didn't get to stream the pre-primetime Grammy show, but I assume that Portugal the Man, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, The War on Drugs, Aimee Mann, and Jason Isbell all thanked me for playing organ instrumentals of their 2017 songs at baseball games.

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6 years

Gospel Music Hall-of-Famers AND Country Music Hall-of-Famers The Oak Ridge Boys sang the national anthem before today's Red Sox game. I played "Elvira" on the organ. Next thing I know, they're up in the booth.

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#tbt Opening Day two years ago: someone in the stands told me, "I see Kay from Letters to Cleo sitting near me... can you play 'Here and Now?'," and then after the game I received this video.

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Kay Hanley ✨🖖✨

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@jtkantor That was awesome!!!

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4 years

Let's find out if tonight's 1st-inning medley of "Aqualung" into "Locomotive Breath" fazes Atlanta's rookie pitcher Ian Anderson.

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3 years

One of yesterday's highlights was predicting a Red Sox victory over the Yankees on a big New York TV station.

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6 years

They must not have been at the game, because everyone who was here yesterday listening to the Pride Night jams that DJ @SenatorJohn and I were laying down is now gay.

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6 years

Some fans angry that @RedSox paint logo in rainbow colors for LGBT Pride, demand a 'straight night.'

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6 years

Happy 5th anniversary of the time that Yogi Berra's granddaughter called my work "God-awful."

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6 years

I miss him, too... I wonder what ever happened to that guy.

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6 years

Hi gang. My parents are at the World Series game tonight, so if we could all just pretend for the next few hours that I am totally normal and respectable, I would really appreciate that.

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4 years

This headline is... uh... misleading.

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5 months

Ten billion thanks to baseball super-fan GEDDY LEE for inviting me to play a bunch of organ instrumental versions of @RushTheBand songs for prelude and intermission at his memoir talk at The Orpheum in Boston.

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3 years

🎤🎶 "I'm in the corner..." 🎶

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7 years

After last night, I can now cross "Open for Tim Kaine playing harmonica with Tommy Stinson" off my Bucket List.

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6 years

Never-before-seen color movie footage from Ted Williams' final game and final home run in 1960. Utterly mesmerizing.

Now in Living Color: Ted Williams’s Last Game (Published 2018)

For nearly 58 years, Williams’s last game has been seen in black-and-white. Now, recently discovered color footage adds another dimension to his final, fabled at-bat.

www.nytimes.com

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6 years

I studied literature and chose a career as a musician, so I hope to have my students loans paid off by the time I'm 53, but it was worth it.

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Brandeis University

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#Brandeis grad @jtkantor '94 is playing his 4th #WorldSeries since joining the @RedSox in 2003. Name not ringing a bell? He plays on the bench - the organ bench. 🎹 And we hear he takes requests! #RedSox #DoDamage

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TSA Agent: What's this? Me: It's an accordion. TSA Agent: OK, sounds good. Me: Not when I play it.

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6 years

scene at the Fenway organ perch yesterday... * 9-year-old kid: So you can hear a song and then play it? * Me: Usually, yes. * Kid: Wow, you're just like Stevie Wonder! * Me: I am going to adopt you now.

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3 years

Looks like they're gonna try to put on some concerts this summer at the Harborlights Bank of Boston BankBoston FleetBoston Bank of America Blue Hills Bank Rockland Trust Bank Leader Bank Pavilion.

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3 years

Happy 15th anniversary of the Mirabelli police escort game. He got to Van Ness St. three minutes before Wakefield's 1st pitch; as he sprinted to the clubhouse to put on pads & spikes, the umpires grew impatient, and a team exec got on the production headset and told me to stall.

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7 years

Thank you to the kind folks at MLB for writing this article, with one of the truest headlines in journalism history.

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7 months

Closing out the 2023 Fenway season with some Boyz II Men, just as the baseball fates foretold.

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8 years

Come to the Red Sox game early tonight. I'll be playing "Revolver" in its entirety on the organ starting at 5:40PM.

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Josh Kantor

5 years

Snuck in to NPR headquarters over the weekend to record an unsanctioned Tiny Desk Concert. Now just need to persuade them to air it. 📷 @CLGeiger01834

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4 years

@hbryant42 Hi Howard. I hope you liked it. I've been playing it at a couple games each year since I started here in 2003. I'm a fan of your work.

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4 years

Today's Boston Globe asked 36 local music nerds to each write 150 words about their favorite album. I had a hard time editing down my 7,500-word first draft, but here's the end result.

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7 years

They're letting me leave. Putting my residency on a 178-day hiatus. World's weirdest gig resumes on April 5, 2018.

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7 months

Greg Hawkes gave my version of “Just What I Needed” a thumbs-up. #BestDayEver

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2 years

Hunkering down today the same way we did for The Blizzard of '78.

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6 years

Reverend Mary (my better half, seated in the background of this photo in her clerical garb) got arrested today for her participation in The Poor People's Campaign. She is home now and doing OK. I am, as always, very proud of her commitment to justice.

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More than a dozen protesters arrested at Massachusetts Statehouse

More than a dozen protesters have been arrested while refusing to leave the Massachusetts Statehouse during a gathering to demand elected officials confront systemic racism.

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6 years

Stopped by the office over the weekend to give the Foo Fighters some pointers on how to play there.

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