# humorless — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover humorless. Page: Feed: --- ## [Ten Years of "The Humorless Ladies" (Part 2)](https://pianofighter.substack.com/p/ten-years-of-the-humorless-ladies-e59) _2026-08-15 · Franz Nicolay · Piano Fighter_ Part 1 of my revisitation of The Humorless Ladies of Border Control, on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, is here. ## [Ten Years of "The Humorless Ladies" (Part 1)](https://pianofighter.substack.com/p/ten-years-of-the-humorless-ladies) _2026-08-07 · Franz Nicolay · Piano Fighter_ What holds up; what I'd change ## [The disappearance of the pop group](https://pianofighter.substack.com/p/the-disappearance-of-the-pop-group) _2026-07-15 · Franz Nicolay · Piano Fighter_ An excerpt from a larger article I’m working on, in which I did some crude research to try to confirm an anecdotal sense—that multi-person groups (whether as creative collaboration or performers) are thinner on the ground. ## [Wurlitzer of Cincinnati](https://pianofighter.substack.com/p/wurlitzer-of-cincinnati) _2026-07-01 · Franz Nicolay · Piano Fighter_ The carnivalesque story of one American music company ## [Gee Dad, it's a Wurlitzer!](https://pianofighter.substack.com/p/gee-dad-its-a-wurlitzer) _2026-06-15 · Franz Nicolay · Piano Fighter_ One of the minor tragedies of being a rock keyboardist is that you rarely get to, in the course of your work, play your actual instrument. That is, for all the obvious logistical reasons—they’re heavy, bulky, fragile, hard to keep in tune, hard to amplify—you’re not typically touring or performing with an acoustic piano, a Hammond organ, a Wurlitzer or Rhodes electric piano, but with digital… ## ["Writers are you and me and everyone we know."](https://pianofighter.substack.com/p/writers-are-you-and-me-and-everyone) _2026-06-04 · Franz Nicolay · Piano Fighter_ Piano Fighter is a reader-supported publication. ## [My full Congressional testimony on LiveNation/Ticketmaster](https://pianofighter.substack.com/p/my-full-congressional-testimony-on) _2026-05-19 · Franz Nicolay · Piano Fighter_ From yesterday's hearing ## [A quick one from Boston](https://pianofighter.substack.com/p/a-quick-one-from-boston) _2026-05-01 · Franz Nicolay · Piano Fighter_ …where I’m setting up with the Hold Steady for four nights at the Sinclair. ## [Admiring one bassline](https://pianofighter.substack.com/p/admiring-one-bassline) _2026-04-15 · Franz Nicolay · Piano Fighter_ Dottie West's "A Lesson in Leavin'" ## [Reach prospects with real signals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/lJmirlfgFsOC) _2026-04-15 · **Sponsored**_ Find prospects talking about your problem and get context-backed moments to engage ## ["More like 'Copy and Paste magazine' eh?"](https://pianofighter.substack.com/p/more-like-cut-and-paste-magazine) _2026-03-31 · Franz Nicolay · Piano Fighter_ Who is holding the line for original music criticism, if the editors themselves aren't?