OK…So…Here’s a New Year’s Resolution…

OK…so a good resolution might be…in the coming year…to attack life with passion and artistry…invention…and a bucketful of humor. That might work out better for me than the way I live sometimes. To sleepwalk through a life is no way … Continue reading

Jack=Nate…Playing His Sax-a-boom

My youngest son, Nate, has the same kind of energy as Jack Black. Nate doesn’t cuss like Jack Black…yet. Maybe I can keep it like that if I mind my own potty mouth. But…the physicality and the humor are already … Continue reading

How We Listen Now…Yvette Young and a Seymour Duncan Portrait..

Here’s an artist. Yvette Young is a musician who started in the visual arts. She’s an artist. A buddy said that he did the bulk of his music listening these days on YouTube. Makes sense when you can discover people … Continue reading

(My God is) All About Me…David Wilcox

I heard a minister….preacher…preach at me guy…say that people were either blessed or cursed. I think that he was saying that if you were faithful…and, more importantly, faithful with your tithes…that you were blessed. If you didn’t have enough faith … Continue reading

Marco Parisi plays Prince’s “Purple Rain” on the Seaboard RISE…NAMM 2017

Great Song….Amazing performance on an instrument I’d never seen before. Goodness…. … Continue reading

björk: human behavior

When you say “recording artist”, people don’t usually mean what they’re saying. Most music these days just seems to be “product”…produced by people programmed to make music that fits a demographic…with only the goal of making money behind it. In … Continue reading

I Know a Star…

I brought our Great Pyrenees, Appa, his food this morning and stood out with him for a while…visiting and looking at the sky. It’s Christmas Day….and the sky is full of stars. We don’t live in a place without light. … Continue reading

Esperanza Spalding: “Overjoyed”

Here’s Esperanza Spalding playing one of my favorite Stevie Wonder songs… It’s Christmas…and this isn’t really a “Christmas song”….but…isn’t any love song a “Christmas song”? Maybe it’s OK…overjoyed at the birth of the Christ child and the season that should … Continue reading