The Satisfying Comeback
Most shocking moment in concert was when Joan Armatrading played the Winnipeg Concert Hall circa 1977. It felt like a sold out show and she was a special rising star […]
Note To Self
Campbell Yates and I secretly met in the coach house he rented as a teenager in the 70s and we listened to this guy who made these crazy records that […]
Stagefright
(part of an email from a Thunder Bay musician last month) Dear Bob I’m not very good at rambling to an audience and I don’t think I ever will be. […]
Best Moment Since The 1919 Strike
Older brother Ronnie was into the blues which was the most fortunate thing for his little brother. To have Ronnie teach the blues was like being born into a Zen […]
Subliminal Nursery Song
My spies on the interweb informed me of a Beatles fact that was previously not known to me and it is oh too cute. In the background vocals to Paperback […]
From Planet To Planet
New York in 1984 – greatest show on Earth – Sun Ra next to the Chelsea Hotel with maybe 20 other people, all of us at the end dancing like […]
Not So Smartphone
The other day CBC published an article about cellphones and cancer. This American Life did a more in depth piece just a few years ago and there are good reasons […]
Logical Opinions
Save The Last Dance For Me Interesting to read about (the song’s writer) Doc Pomus. At his wedding he was in a wheelchair because he had polio. He wrote this […]
Have Fun Working
In and around 1990 while recording a 2cnd record to be released on Warner Music Canada, later titled Presented By Lake Michigan Soda, there was a desire to enlist a […]
A Year Without Matt
Last year was such a train wreck losing Matt Suhar and Sam Larkin, part of my brain departed with them. Reading this account in the news, one year later, that […]