The Job Market.
the film I am currently scoring came about because an editor at the company worked with me 2 years earlier and recommended me when they wondered out loud who to […]
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Some people I teach are notation-reading-only-musicians and some have a similar story in their background being at parties where people are jamming and despite playing all their life they can’t play […]
Not My Cup Of Tea
Criticsm hurts but so does bullshitting. Maybe lying is a better way to move through it? . When I asked our new American manager what he thought of my first record, […]
transparency
When things become bigger the advice of many managers is don’t redistribute the money equitably. Just make a salary for everyone else… except of course you the artist and me […]
wedding album
no doubt on many top ten lists for 1972
never thought people would accept it
In the 80s I worked in social services and a charity bought passes to the Jackson Victory tour for the residents of the group home and a couple staff people to […]
like a talking heads song
Hearing things like radio doesn’t matter and it’s all online, there’s no corruption, it’s a level playing field…… So then why can’t poor slobs just be on iTunes or […]
spontaneous composition
Not so amazing improvisers start doing tricks or they start making noise for noise sake as if it’s proof they are an improviser. They lead no matter what others are […]
but the biggest kick i ever got
Maybe it’s about the power of advertising. Never had any reason to sing Crocodile Rock but there it goes…me and Suzie had so much fun…everybody knows the experience of hating a […]
Open Stage pt2. Oz
student: You like not knowing? teacher: I’m usually wrong about what’s going to happen next and I like that. student: Why? teacher: Keep the assumptions in check. student: Which assumptions? […]