the unexpected long road
Amazed how often running with little sleep can go on but then again seen so many trees or plants parched that were fine as long as eventually they drink. There […]
i want you to make love not war, i know you’ve heard it before
That part of the story where Hades tricks Orpheus by giving him control is perfect. One might argue there is no trick, he was just given the power to be […]
E flat
When me and Don and Hugh and Wayne made that record with Edie Brickell in the rehearsals and writing we would make a groove and it would feel good and […]
at the enigma cafe
Missed my calling. Could have always been a reggae keyboard player. My older brother Ronnie taught me how to play the 2 and the 4 and the clavinet parts and […]
Q and accomplished
Q the time traveling trickster from Star Trek and Deep Space 9, Voyager etc. went back in time, and popped into Lenny Breau’s apartment who was nodding off at the […]
al
david’s birthday today. he died more than 10 years ago but i like remembering how proud he seemed when i wrote a song about him. in 2004 touring western canada […]
intuition
because whenever one has more or less mastered something with their instrument, it’s executed by the body without needing much of the head, like when you really know it you […]
soundtrack on wheels
For a long time cars have been useful places to check mixes of music I’m working on. When my teenage friends turned 16 most of them tried to get their […]
that other piano lesson
Boris said to his piano teacher, Mrs. Schneider Why is it you never say anything nice about my playing? Mrs. Schneider replied, because the part of you that […]
Clancy Sigal
Struck up an online friendship 10 years ago with Clancy Sigal, he died in 2017. Learned some interesting things from his writing. The article below he wrote on remembering Pete […]