Tip Sheets

  I wrote to Todd Sullivan at Geffen in the late 80s because I read he was an A&R guy at Geffen. I wrote to a few people like that but […]

Go Go Boy

  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 […]

Keep Me Free From Birth

I still can’t believe there was a #1 song once, which I heard on the radio in real time, who’s lyrics were about ending the terrible vicious cycle of reincarnation.

Zed Is Dead Baby

Recently I read about a company that wanted something similar to this song by Aphex Twin and they were paying about $20,000. That’s Mr. Aphex Twin below (obviously at the beach). I tried […]

And Got Myself A Steady Job

Next month I start teaching a course at Centennial College in songwriting and part of what I am organizing is a discussion about lyrics and why somethings are interesting and […]

Signals

Go swing Brush le dent Eww ya baby Sleeping Bunny Doe doe, ssshhhh, doe doe. More? Oh oh My no like        

Guest Post On Kapootie Preamps

by TOM ST. LOUIS re tweaking and all that….It’s cool that there are ways to fix things….but I never wanted to lose connection to that pre electricity world. Did Sonnyboy […]