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Barry Pailet is a semi-retired, recovering healthcare exec who’s been a passionate lifelong rock fan. He affectionately credits three specific childhood events for injecting rock music deep into his bone marrow:
- Growing up next door to a 19 year old college dropout who perpetually blasted the most magnetic and incomparable music he’d never heard in all of his 10 years of life.
- His mom ushering him to the film release of “The Concert For Bangladesh” in 1972 – the first large-scale music benefit event assembled by George Harrison.
- Hopping a train into New York City on an 8th grade “School night” in 1974 to see Stevie Wonder at Madison Square Garden.
Raised on Long Island, he was schooled in rock by the infamous WLIR, WBAB & WNEW New York rock radio stations, and admittedly spent far too many late nights with friends cranking vinyl in basements and cassettes in cars. Then, now, and in between, you’ll often find him basking in the glory of live music at venues that vary from pint-sized pubs to sold-out stadiums.
Four decades since his English degree, he’s finally emerging from a fog of regret for not having rolled the dice on a rock journalism gig, and sharing his excitement and passion for all things 1960’s and ‘70s rock & roll with his Rockin’ Down Rabbit Holes podcast.