silence her
I don’t care if my kid plays music or not but I want to make it easy to grab it if she so desires. I play in front of her […]
Bob Wiseman
what’s wrong with this picture?
2016 I pitched another show to CBC and they liked it and gave me a little money to try making a pilot. They ask is it a podcast or a […]
care of cell 44
Some songs are like a big old beautiful tree you come upon and marvel at the branches and the leaves, the bark and the fruit, the majesty and power. […]
fly
There is a unique problem sometimes In the summertime, from open windows and doors that makes it difficult to get work done, today was one of those days, with all […]
When All the Dime Dancing is Through
1991, it’s a long story but there i was on the stage at soundcheck for Paul Simon’s 50th birthday show in Central Park and Edie says this is the drummer […]
Understanding
1998, on an airplane flying to the Edmonton Folk Festival. Kate and Anna McGarrigle were seated near me. Couldn’t help it, went over to tell Anna how much I liked […]
Lay Lady Lay
Bob Dylan’s Lay Lady Lay is probably based around the fun visual of playing the bar chords like a children’s game A C#- G F#- : 5th […]
pimps, parties, poland
I attended a Toronto film party and gabbed with people about what their doing and what I’m doing, gave out business cards, mine feature the Warner Brothers logo reversed. Sometimes […]
Piano for real
1987, in the studio with Terry Brown and Juno award winning engineer Mike Jones, Bruce Hornsby’s song That’s The Way It Is comes over the air waves during a break. […]
mainstream makes radical normal
The mainstream absorbs revolutionary ideas then sells them back as non-threatening. Can you imagine punk rockers in the 70s with fuchsia mohawks and ripped jeans? If you weren’t there it […]