Moment with Cleave 30 years ago
Cleave: Why do you play the solo from our big hit song different every night? Bob: Because I like the challenge, I like not knowing what I’m going to do. […]
Performing
20 Years Ago, Detroit
Line up of cars at the Canadian side of the Detroit border. Inside a clunker van the driver is carefully rehearsing. Canadian.. Toronto.. 101 Major street.. Chicago.. my friend Matt.. […]
Set List
Singer: Let’s start with Mona people get into it off the top. Drummer: Mona’s too fast to start with we need to build. Bassist: Tomorrow We Hide would […]
now you take my CD, please
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 […]
Benicia Del Torro
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 […]
Choose Your Own Adventure (Psychopath Version)
Played an event last Monday called the Wrecking Ball perhaps named after the Neil Young song or maybe the name refers to breaking up complacency. The recorded version is slightly […]
New Years Day 1961
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
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
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
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 […]