Songwriting

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Skating with 5 year old who clings to plastic support thing which I am pulling on the ice to help her move forward. Briefly stop the teenage ice patrol for […]

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Keyboard in Baba O’Riley was an effect not tendonitis experiment.   No cymbals in Do You Know The Way To San Jose.   Lyrics to Savoy Truffle was just a […]

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First musical gear stolen was after a show at the Holiday Tavern. A bag of pedals and patch chords. There was a group of tough guys who used to do […]

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In the improvising world you work at listening (which changes what passes for thought). The extent to which you continue thinking is proportional to what is accomplished musically. That probably […]

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http://www.neilyoungarchives.com/#/drawer?position=25.041958646941776&_k=pu0b7g Neil Young is all online. All his archives. I found myself listening to Revolution Blues, the song about the Manson Family but never knew it was Rick Danko and […]

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Like improvising in front of an audience. One musician plays something you don’t like but you can’t exactly stop, you keep going. Some instant choices, for instance restate your idea […]

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Getting out the door with someone who is 5 can take about 3 hours. No sweat, you only live once, unless you are totally deluded and expect some sort of […]

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Thinking on the children of my friend died in a car accident and my fantasy of knowing them when their old enough to appreciate me gushing about how much he […]

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Even though Trump is president and even though all over the world, (all over history) there have been people managing things who shouldn’t, sometimes people who really are good at […]

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Once heard someone not from North America remarking about popular music all sounding the same. I can appreciate that. At music school they spoke about the differences between Indian Ragas […]