Performing

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student: here’s my cd.    instructor: thanks but maybe you should give it to someone else.   student: won’t you take it?   instructor: you can leave it but no […]

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In The Usual Suspects Benicio Del Torro apparently tried to have an accent that couldn’t be easily placed. That’s the same goal many musicians have in their playing to sound […]

New Years Day 1961

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Lee Van Leer (C. J. Feeney) died in January. In the obit it said his bandmates broke down his apartment door after he wasn’t seen for more than a week. […]

Peggy Baker's Acceptance Speech

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There’s talent and then there’s unreal talent. The dance milieu is a highly complex and unstable world. Within it, each artist must establish and constantly expand and deepen their expertise […]

True To His Own Spirit

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Listening to Jim Morrison’s father and sister is surprisingly moving and beautiful. I remember reading he said his father was dead and I assumed his father and him disliked each […]

Release Party

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It should be swell to release Sam’s last recordings tonight with all sorts of people from the past and present but like finishing this record what pisses me off is […]

Revenge Of The Loan

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Jerry Harrison in Talking Heads played a Prophet 5. It cost $600 which was clearly unattainable to my 70s teen self so I made an appointment with the loans officer at […]

Wink Wink

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There was a Sufi story the gist of which was about imitating a master when studying under them even if you didn’t understand why they did what they did. There […]

Go Go Boy

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  At any given time it seems like a lot of people with “hits” are just actors or models. When Milli Vanilli was “exposed” for actually being lip-sync-artists people went crazy […]