Songwriting

Criticsm hurts but so does bullshitting. Maybe lying is a better way to move through it? . When I asked our new American manager what he thought of my first record, […]

When things become bigger the advice of many managers is don’t redistribute the money equitably. Just make a salary for everyone else… except of course you the artist and me […]

Maybe it’s about the power of advertising. Never had any reason to sing Crocodile Rock but there it goes…me and Suzie had so much fun…everybody knows the experience of hating a […]

When Sun Ra died every obituary I read wrote about his given name and how he pretended to be from Saturn. None of them understood what he was about or […]

There was an idea to treat outer space like the ocean it is and in 1977 they launched spaceships Voyager 1 & 2 replete with messages in a bottle ostensibly […]

It’s like the music business is a machine with an invisible door and people try to locate the knob. They go to school hoping someone can tell them where that handle […]

Teacher: Try to figure out why these three songs are grouped together?   (Teacher projects lyrics onto projection screen & plays songs)   Pusher Man by Curtis Mayfield, Free Man […]

For a split second sometime around 1989 Stanley Clarke made a pop band with Stuart Copeland. It was called Animal Logic. They played the El Mocambo and when I got […]

piano student: how do you make a B part? me: you just do something else but vary it from the A part. piano student: how do you do that? me: […]