I worked a few years ago with a musician who was shitty to work with, mostly because he lied. Not enormous lies. Just the kind that slowly makes working with […]

Sandy who owned the Peter Pan died, which is a rotten trick even for Peter Pan, a place whose very name suggested nobody was supposed to get any older in […]

Morris disliked the suggestion he had discovered a secret. He hadn’t. He hated waiting rooms, pharmaceutical hold music, government forms, musicians who didn’t bring cables, and anyone who used the […]

Next year, at a certain point I am doing 2 weeks of house concerts in BC. What would be the best way to organize the costs of driving? They start […]

Dave Davies isn’t waving a little progressive-rock flag saying, “Look everybody, I’m in five.” The basic pulse can be heard as five beats to the bar, often felt less as […]

The orphalon was discovered by Freddie Cheesecake. He found it in the basement of a house outside Thunder Bay wrapped in a wool blanket beside three jars of peaches. It […]

Leonard played second trombone in the orchestra for thirty-seven years. He liked second because it allowed him to participate in enormous things without necessarily being blamed for them. The first […]

Tonight I made one of those concoctions for which there is no recipe because admitting there was a recipe would imply somebody planned it. I started with my tomato sauce, […]

Penticton confirmed. Oh joy. That’s Vallican, Kimberley, Castlegar, Fernie, Robert’s Creek, Powell River, Nanaimo, Vancouver and Penticton confirmed. Waiting on Victoria, Kaslo, Kelowna, Cumberland, Williams Lake, Crawford Bay. That’s BC […]

It had been so long since Ray toured the East Coast. Some venues disappeared, along with promoters, record stores and radio stations. He remembered Halifax when you could arrive with […]