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Quad Cities Underground: 1999-2005 (From the Vault Music Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Chad V. Holtkamp (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Before the hit reality TV show American Pickers brought fame to the region...

the Quad Cities of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa, and Moline and Rock Island in Illinois were best known as the hometown of jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke, football great Roger Craig, as well as the radio broadcast beginnings of future president Ronald “Dutch” Reagan.

Writer Chad V. Holtkamp began his own career with an entertainment column focused on the happenings of the local music scene. Between 1999 – 2005, his “Quad Cities Underground” column appeared monthly in The Dispatch and Rock Island Argus newspapers.

As Y2K fizzled and the millennium safely turned, the local music scene in the Quad Cities proved fertile ground for a wide variety of musical styles. Everything from hardcore punk, country, rock and pop, to improvisational jazz and fusion was featured in the “Underground.”

Dive deep into the days when bands released physical CDs burned at home on Pentium-based Dells and candy-colored iMacs, back before the creation of YouTube and the iPhone, and even MySpace and Facebook.

With feature stories on bands like Wicked Liz and the Bellyswirls, Intensity!, Bruised, Mommy’s Little Monster, Dani Lynn Howe, Provoke, and The Angsted, relive the golden era of Napster and GeoCities homepages in Quad Cities Underground, the first book in the From the Vault Music Series.

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    September 18, 2019
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    3027 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07Y3DW4TR
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Briefcase Media Group (September 18, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 18, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3027 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 332 pages

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A new Sci-Fi series is out now! - The SPOOK & GOON Space Adventures. To join Chad V. Holtkamp's Reader's Group for updates, specials, and reading recommendations, visit chadvholtkamp.com.

Chad V. Holtkamp has always had that dual nature of being interested in business (numbers, wearing a suit, working in an office) while also being a creative at heart (singing/playing guitar in alt/punk bands, writing, photography, and acting).

With a career in corporate recruiting, he dusted off his minor in Writing with the Home Gym Strong series of fitness memoirs. He followed it with The SPOOK & GOON Space Adventures as his first fiction series. Since then, he's expanded into other areas of fiction as well while digging through the archives of his early writing career with the From the Vault Music series.

Born and raised on the banks of the Mighty Mississippi in Davenport, Iowa, Chad lives in Chicago with his beautiful wife and a varied collection of Macs and BBQ grills, always dreaming of his next Caribbean adventure.

You can keep in touch at chad@chadvholtkamp.com

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