Uncategorized | June 16, 2009
FROM A TO ZZ IN 33I’ve had a lot of joys in my 48 years, but few have surpassed the sheer joy I get from a live concert. Having logged what has to be several […]
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Uncategorized | May 29, 2009
SO YOU WANNA BE A (MIDLIFE) ROCK AND ROLL STAR?Like me, you probably went to rock concerts as a kid and fantasized about being onstage, with thousands of cheering fans hanging onto your every word, your every note. Being […]
Uncategorized | March 23, 2009
FLYING HIGH WITH BLIND PILOTSometimes you can just feel it. The momentum. The breaks. The vibe. That’s what it’s kinda feeling like for alt-folk/rock band Blind Pilot at this moment in time. That time […]
Uncategorized | March 16, 2009
Broken Hearts Mend For EternityIt was Sunday morning, and I was sitting eating some late breakfast and reading the obituaries in the Washington Post. I very often peruse the obits, you can find truly incredible, sometimes astounding, […]
Uncategorized | March 10, 2009
THE STRANGER AND THE YELLOW BRICK ROADMy passionate lifelong love of music first got a jump start by a trip down the Yellow Brick Road. Not the Yellow Brick Road with Dorothy. The one with Alice […]
Uncategorized | February 18, 2009
ONE OF THOSE NIGHTSOur band Second Wind has been together three years this month. Three years! John Lennon said back in 1962 that he didn’t know if the Beatles would last ten years […]
Uncategorized | December 31, 2008
THE DARKLING THRUSHFrom the pen of Thomas Hardy 109 years ago today, and by way of my dear friend John Malone, here is a beautiful piece of moving prose to usher in your […]
Uncategorized | December 29, 2008
GOT MILKSaw a phenomenal film this weekend: Gus Van Sant’s “Milk.” Not only was it another career-defining performance by Sean Penn, one of the great actors and filmmakers of our time, […]
Uncategorized | December 24, 2008
IT IS A WONDERFUL LIFENot going to go on forever here. But hey, it is Christmas Eve, and an emotional cuss like me is sure to wax that way on a day like this. […]
Uncategorized | November 24, 2008
A THIRTY YEAR KISSWhen I was in high school in Wilton Connecticut back in the mid-late 70’s, the rock group KISS was a big deal. Although the quality of their music was middling at […]