50 Cent and Vitamin Water?!
Somewhere in America they love me – or at least they did one day last August when a writer for Earbits named Scott Feldman was given the assignment of reviewing […]
Songwriting
About Sam Larkin: brick through glass
Sam gave me advice when I was in my early 20s about establishing a career. “I don’t know what to do Sam, it’s like a fixed game.” “It’s easy Bob […]
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Joni Mitchell’s process when she wrote the album Mingus was to hang with Charles Mingus and meditate about it afterward then write. Or at least that’s how I remember her […]
About Sam Larkin: reincarnation
Sam believed in past lives. I never could get my head around that line of thought. He told me when we met in 1982 that I had obviously been playing […]
Death by Manglesdorff
Bill Smith’s piece about Albert Manglesdorff is killing me. And this video with Pastorius and Alphonse Mouzon doesn’t hurt.
Holted In My Tracks
Michael Holt (winner of Mr. New Age 1993) this morning sent me this special performance from Sweden. He changed some of the lyrics to my song (improved maybe) and why […]
Baltimore
Nina Simone wrote amazing songs and propelled forward great songs by others. An honour for Randy Newman that she would record his music. It’s also one of the most likeable […]
Apple Pie And Ice Cream Do You Treat Your Mama Mean?
Jackie Lomax died. Does Tricia Olson know? She played me his music in her green stucco Furby street apartment sometime before the 70s ended. I had all the Beatles solo […]
German Method To Save The World
Very clever of the German people to record this medley which upon listening guarantees realistic opportunities for world peace and furthers global initiatives towards ending poverty, discrimination and a serious […]
Their Front Yard
Stands out in my mind as killer brilliant moment – that they played this just as they did in that other century, perhaps now more uniquely. Met Dave walking down […]