#LunchWithDoug the Community Follower

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Where it began and where it will end are left to the unknown. Lunch With Doug has been on an official viral internet outbreak since March 23, 2017, but the roots are planted much deeper. Doug Harper began making videos of his band and their adventures in 1996 and later building on that by promoting a then non-existent local music scene in his hometown of Nevada, Missouri. By 1998 using an internet journal, internet web log or homepage as sites like his were called back then (before the term blog was coined in the spring of 1999) he unknowingly started one of the earliest music scene websites in the nation. The Local Ear Underground Entertainment Guide began simply because no mainstream coverage of local music was happening. The live music boom of the 60's, 70's and early 80's had since crashed regionally and something new was on the horizon. A printed fan-zine was created but with the power of the internet it became obvious that to get to the masses it was goin...