Elliot Sperber
climate change as crimes against humanity,
Etude 1990 (For Earlier Media)
Reviewing the video 25 years later it doesn’t look like Denise Donlon believed young Bob. What’s so difficult about a collaboration between people who never met? Looks to me like […]
The 20 Year Old Jam Might Still Be Good
There was a CBC radio show called Real Audio created by the inventive Loc Dao and for some fabulous reason they hired me to make 3 pieces for them where […]
The Dignity Possibility
When you play out of town consider involving community radio. Usually it’s free and then there is some built in advertising. Don’t be scared of asking they are suppose to […]
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 […]