Some Say Love
There was a woman whose favourite artist was Bette Midler and she fell in love with a man she hoped would share her musical taste but never really came true […]
War
Trying To Jump Off The Cliff While Realizing It
I read retailers sold more when they were playing happy music. I hate statistics like that. I might only be a lemming but I hate being reminded. Then again, to […]
ripped off from his solo and alienation
An adventurous guitarist was asked to play a solo on a record but not everyone in the room understood the solo and so he was asked to do another and […]
the guy that knew a guy
The older British guy in the photo store at Walmer and Bloor said when he was in college he used to watch Brian Jones at gigs. He isn’t bragging or […]
Jim Keltner inside
Since wee-est memories whatever musical connection has me, felt anybody can be same, like here is a key to a house and I don’t own the house but there’s the […]
bank robber in times new roman
In the morning mail 2 rejection letters from the Ontario Arts Council. No funding to record the 10 string quartets nor to record a batch of new songs about Jian […]
nobody’s home pt 1.
Dmitri, a bass player noticed the band he played in was always critical. Either they were insulting other groups or else envying how much better other groups were than them. […]
a few good men
As the old conductor lay there in an oxygen tent, tubes sustaining his last afternoon, Roderick arrived and leaned over the bed. The old man was pleased to see him, […]
after the paradiddles
Bill Kosinski, decided to follow his dreams. In September he quit his job at the gas station and flew from a small Manitoba town to Mali in Africa to work […]
loop pedal
In the movies the person sentenced to death is never offered a last piece of music. In real life it is worse. They can never stop hearing the same song […]