Mark E. Rumley underestimated the tenacity, humor and professionalism of Joe Viglione.
When this editor first met Mark E. Rumley and former Human Rights Commissioner and Parking Attendant Diane E. McLeod (yes, we are making sport of McLeod's position as the go-to person when you had a complaint over a parking ticket, but Mike McGlynn's juggling act for employees is worth a good study) it was my thought that these "government officials" would do the right thing!
That was early 2003 after Joe Viglione opened up the investigation that would inform the public about the wrongful conduct of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. self-appointed president Francis R. Pilleri, Jr. and his band of not-so-merry-men and their thug-like behavior.
2014: Retiring Detective J.J. McLean:
"You won. You won. And the city is better off for it."
Note the dates. 11 years of my life to remove the blight on the city that was Pilleri's brand of "private" access television, dubbed "private public access" by the only other Access Icon in the city, Joseph Fortunato, reiterated by retired judge Marie O. Jackson-Thompson - that Pilleri's gang, and it was a violent gang, were operating a "private" MCC Access.
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Access Television is on pace to die a horrible death, and that would please the slimy corporate big shots and lawyers at Verizon, Comcast, RCN etc. etc. no end. Their goal is the death of access TV for two reasons:
1)They want the public to have no ability to get traction with the press. Squelching the free speech of whistleblowers everywhere.
2)Unbelievably, the eye the franchise fee as monies they could grab by raising the rates. And think about the complaints the DTC (Department of Telecommunications and Cable) fielded when Comcast stopped giving away the little switch to get basic cable on a second TV to a $2.50 charge. Times 3 million subscribers "that's a lot of money" to quote Richard Gear in the film Primal Fear.
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A neighbor on Otis Street saw this writer (Joe Viglione) on Salem Street and said "You're famous. I don't want to be famous."
When Joe Viglione saved a tree on Garfield Ave the tree warden, Aggie Tuden, upon meeting me said "You're famous."
Famous? Moi?
OK, OK, yes, I'm listed in Playboy Magazine as one of Boston's FIVE BEST BANDS APRIL 1977 - and - yes - I had four albums out in Europe, Paris to be exact, the Flamingo/Carrere label, New Rose (distributed by the huge European company Musidisc) etc. my work probably in about 50,000 or more homes with my discs fetching nice prices on the open market.
And simultaneous with my first radio show in 1978 I was included in the prestigious CREEM magazine on a page with THE WHO (I believe the band Boston is in the same issue) with Johnny Rotten on the cover. That was a year later in April of 1978.
I believe Mark E. Rumley is jealous of my hard work and honest efforts on behalf of access TV, while Mr. Rumley takes an axe to free speech and the First Amendment, like the buzzsaw Adam Knight took to that beautiful tree on Paris Street.
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Aggie Tuden, shame on you. For your punishment, spend $50.00 on this copy of Creem Magazine on eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/Creem-Magazine-1978-Queen-Johnny-Rotten-Sex-Pistols-Freddie-Mercury-Elvis-Ramone-/182967762338
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Boy did that piss off a lot of people who should have been in the corner of a guy getting attention.
Playboy
Creem
the first real record deal in Europe in the "New Wave" - my colleague Willie Loco of the Velvet Underground, ABC Records Bagatelle and Capitol Records The Lost (I was his manager at one point) was already on MCA Records in America 1977/1978, distributed by Musidisc in France, and another foundation of the New Wave, the Real Kids, had a 45 on Sponge Records, but Joe Viglione got the first real deal in Europe which Willie Loco and the Real Kids followed, Willie when I signed him to New Rose / RCA Records in 1980 after the MCA deal. Not only did I sign Loco and Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls, I helped Willie with his final record for MCA bringing his equipment back to Boston from the Vermont studio and releasing on my label the tracks that MCA rejected, preserving for all-time these rare recordings of "Dirty Eddie," "Nazi Nola - She Wanted Me" and the Chuck Berry classic "Too Much Monkey Business."
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Yes, being an underground "icon" and a public access "icon" can still get me a Dunkin Donuts coffee for the same price as you!
Hey, F. Scott Fitzgerald never saw real fame until his passing.
F Scott Fitzgerald died thinking he was a failure and his work forgotten.
First published by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews and sold poorly; in its first year, the book sold only 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades.
Know this, Mr. Rumley, I am Persistent.
I never give up. And if it means finally forcing you to resign in disgrace, so be it.
I never give up. And if it means finally forcing you to resign in disgrace, so be it.
Winston Churchill: Here's what really happened with the Churchill speech: On Oct. 29, 1941, he visited Harrow School, his alma mater, and made some remarks. Included were these words:
“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
The Music Business is one of rejection, from the Beatles to the band Boston to the New Kids on the Block.
I know, I managed one of the studios where the New Kids made their first recordings in 1988, Mission Control.
My real resume' is so lengthy and substantial it absolutely frightens Stephanie Muccini-Burke
The Boston Globe has called me "Boston's hardest working impresario" while the once-famous and now forgotten Oedipus of WBCN noted at a dinner with a rock star that this writer is "The hardest working man in Boston Rock and Roll."
Indeed, I worked hard and removed Oedipus from his throne, as certainly as I worked hard and removed the once indelible Frank Pilleri from his self-appointed throne.
The city of Medford has harassed and hurt this hard-working man.
But if it took Thomas Edison's research lab and crew 10,000 experiments to perfect the light bulb, if it took Jack London 664 rejections before his classic THE CALL OF THE WILD became immortal, who am I to deny the challenge?
I am very carefully putting the Federal case against Caraviello, Finn, Sacco and the city together.
Once the case hits, it will rip open the lies of the city of Medford, the wrongful conduct, the stuff that makes Adam Knight's folly just the tip of the iceberg.
I am a great investigative reporter.
This iconic underground singer and public access host knows what it is like to do a good job and have alleged "access stations" in Somerville, Winchester, Malden and Medford seething with envy.
They don't want to foster success. They want to be like that jackass in Melrose, the Executive Director Pat what's his name who stole guests from the access producers.
What a fraud. And now he's "Executive Director," as fraudulent as the alleged "good audio" from Ron Cox in Malden. Cox, throwing himself in the limelight at the MATV parties where they had me hire the talent for the annual meetings, would make a damn fool of himself as the "star of the show."
MCC President George Manfra shrugs his shoulders "That's Ron."
No, that's abuse of the access station by an E.D. who is supposed to facilitate programming, not assuage and indulge his enormous ego at the expense of the cable TV subscribers and the members of the station.
Stephanie Muccini-Burke does the same thing from another angle: completely stifling free speech and the 1st Amendment so no one will see on TV her involvement, if any, in a powerful politician's daughter having alleged sex with a high school teacher.
That's why they are angry, jealous and out for blood.
They can't stand a professional shining a light and making public their bad behavior.
Good news, Gary Christenson.
I never, ever EVER give up!
The Call of the Wild
Jack London was rejected 664 times!
1. Jack London was rejected 664 times in his first five years as a writer.
As a young man in the slums of Oakland, London threw himself into writing. He later said, “On occasion I composed steadily, day after day, for fifteen hours a day. At times I forgot to eat, or refused to tear myself away from my passionate outpouring in order to eat.” At first, this deluge yielded nothing but rejection. London would impale every rejection slip on a spindle in his writing room and soon had a column of paper four feet high. In fact, he amassed 664 rejection letters in the first five years of writing.
The best is yet to come.
Do stay tuned
This persistent investigative reporter, this "famous" person, or so they say, is just getting warmed up!
Mark Rumley must go!
Roy E. Belson, he can stick around, for Belson's the poster boy for bad behavior, and the longer he stays in the game, the easier it will be to point to Roy's wrongful conduct!
Roy can stay.
Mark and Chief Sacco must go!
Chief Sacco's retirement is in slow motion!
What a pity...he sticks around like a stain on the city of Medford
That's the way these reprobates and cronies want it.
But it is NOT what the public they are supposed to serve wants.
Not by a long shot.
We have a plan, and they will be stunned when the plan goes into action
Do stay tuned. You will read it here first!
For this news outlet is a big part of that plan and they never saw Medford Information Central coming, not in their wildest dreams.
Do stay tuned
This persistent investigative reporter, this "famous" person, or so they say, is just getting warmed up!
Mark Rumley must go!
Roy E. Belson, he can stick around, for Belson's the poster boy for bad behavior, and the longer he stays in the game, the easier it will be to point to Roy's wrongful conduct!
Roy can stay.
Mark and Chief Sacco must go!
Chief Sacco's retirement is in slow motion!
What a pity...he sticks around like a stain on the city of Medford
That's the way these reprobates and cronies want it.
But it is NOT what the public they are supposed to serve wants.
Not by a long shot.
We have a plan, and they will be stunned when the plan goes into action
Do stay tuned. You will read it here first!
For this news outlet is a big part of that plan and they never saw Medford Information Central coming, not in their wildest dreams.
What a great ride, the Boston Globe, Boston Herald,
Boston Phoenix, the Real Paper, L'attendant, Rock & Folk, Phonograph Record magazine, Sounds (U.K.) Magazine, we got good press quite often, and quite deserved.