Politics

The film about Muscle Shoals is an amazing layered story but it felt weird when the main man, Rick Hall, explained there was no racism there, nope, never, not one […]

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 […]

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 […]

Garth Hudson walked over to me while we were rehearsing The Weight for their induction into the Juno Hall of Fame. I was expecting some sort of exchange since we […]

Jonas Blue: Mama (over 140 million views)   structure: verse chorus verse chorus.   Instruments: sound like loops from $150 software, like music made on computers.   lyrics:   Where […]

Around making Mingus, in interviews she spoke about the process, how she would hang with him and meditate afterward then write. She is about as inspiring as Stephen Harper never […]

Was in a traffic jam on Parkside Blvd adjacent to Toronto’s largest park, High Park, maybe similar in size to New York’s Central Park. And there at 10:30 am standing […]

Some people get upset about critics and call them unintelligent or immature. Some even write letters complaining. Good luck whoever expects that will lead to new enlightened or insightful critics […]

Got a call from a Canadian music magazine some years ago asking me to review a product – a Leslie amplifier simulator. They didn’t pay musicians for these requests.   […]