If you put a fancy piece of music in front of a musician they can’t just play it and all its intricacies immediately. It has to be studied, practised and […]

Watched a squirrel scurry high up an old tree with some leaves in its mouth. It reached the drey it was working on. The squirrel instinctually knows how to build […]

Pàrtly some ride roller coasters for the same reason some take the stage. Puts you in the now. Very unlikely you daydream when everyone is screaming over the speed you […]

Sometimes when people talk about music it sounds like it is a static thing instead of what it is, a verb. Same as when people talk about their minds as […]

Poster – an attractive serene young woman sitting cross legged, her hands resting on her knees, index finger touching thumb. Headline: learn to meditate, Saturday at such and such address. […]

Success with the opuntia cactus, the one with the zillion micro needles, if you come too close it will absolutely hurt you. Now, post surgery, sprouting new parts. This is […]

Blown’ in the Wind exploded because of Peter, Paul and Mary not Dylan. Sometimes a hit isn’t recognized widely until it is made by mainstream forces. I like Drew Smith’s […]

At the finish of the interview on Q this morning, Tom said to me we usually pick a song to play at the end but in your case we’ll ask […]

The first musicians who offered me work after I quit Blue Rodeo were Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet. Would I be into touring with them as the opening act? In physics […]

It became clear many years ago that one could hire virtuosos to tour with but if they also behaved like babies, it wouldn’t be worth it. Ninety-five percent of the […]