About Sam Larkin: quantity
“Did you write anything last week?” “Ya, I wrote 2 songs maybe 3.” “Wow, amazing.” “I didn’t write 3 amazing songs …but 3 songs, ya.” “Still….” “Let you in on […]
What Lao Tsu Told Sam Sniderman
There is this beautiful thing about arranging. You listen to it 10 million times and make changes over and over until it feels like there is nothing left to do. […]
The Sheltered Youth
There is a certain laugh people laugh when have a realization which will alter everything they previously thought. Like when Charlton Heston sees the Statue of Liberty while riding away […]
50 Cent and Vitamin Water?!
Somewhere in America they love me – or at least they did one day last August when a writer for Earbits named Scott Feldman was given the assignment of reviewing […]
The Public Archive
There is a letter in the public archive which Groucho Marx wrote to Warner Brothers in response to a legal challenge made by Warner Brothers to halt the film […]
About Sam Larkin: brick through glass
Sam gave me advice when I was in my early 20s about establishing a career. “I don’t know what to do Sam, it’s like a fixed game.” “It’s easy Bob […]
What Would You Do and Why Did Toronto?
Dear Bobby Wiseman I’m a big fan of your music and your blog, but I’m writing for another reason today. My buddy wants me to be the composer for his […]
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Joni Mitchell’s process when she wrote the album Mingus was to hang with Charles Mingus and meditate about it afterward then write. Or at least that’s how I remember her […]
Wife’s Superpower – Can Be A Teenager At Will
“Wake me up at 8:30 ok? I need to be up then for sure!” “Okay. ” then at 8:30 “It’s 8:30 wake up” “Okay thanks. Just 5 more minutes please […]
About Sam Larkin: reincarnation
Sam believed in past lives. I never could get my head around that line of thought. He told me when we met in 1982 that I had obviously been playing […]