mike heaphy and infinite heart

About Me

Background from Google search result I was born in Manhattan but grew up in the Bronx. That was a great place to have grown up. No lack of people, no lack of things to do. Just a great place in the time and on the fringe of change. The only constant about New York is change. That place and those changes and some of the characters were to have an everlasting impact on me and my writing...song and otherwise. The first band I put together was in 1971. From then on it was one place after another. All this time I was writing but we never really played those songs out. It didn't seem like the time in those kind of clubs for original music. I had just missed the folk boom in places like the Village by a couple of years and that scene had moved out to San Francisco. After a few years, we hooked up with an agent and had the pleasure of playing many beautiful places in Europe, including a show for the Royal Family in Monte Carlo. I have kept in touch with some great friends we met over there, unforgettable people. Now, as it should have been then for me, my concentration has been on originals. Takes time to realize who you are in this racket. This space is dedicated to all the players, the writers, the poets, the artists and the admirers who are trying to find their way through the maze of dead end and through streets of their lives. Recollections
.. I Have Felt That Too
.. Infinite Heart
Band-leader Gangs Of New York

My Interests

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Member Since: 9/5/2006
Band Website: http://cdbaby.com/cd/heaphy
Band Members: Always changing
Influences: Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, The Byrds, Marcel Marceau
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Live For Me

I'm So Sorry, Virginia
Posted by on Sun, 03 May 2009 14:26:00 GMT

Baile A'tha Cliath...A narrow-back's dream for belated St. Patrick's Day

I want to go...and dwell by that Dark PoolAnd burn every bridge...on this ocean of yearsTo take one more chance...and follow a new schoolAnd learn what I can...from it's literate tears I want to go......
Posted by on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:06:00 GMT

Bonnie Annie Laurie

Bonnie Annie Laurie. What a pretty old song. Although its 19th century Scottish in origin, I've added it for Saint Patrick's Day. Really though, its a homage to James Dunn, the actor, who's portrayal ...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:40:00 GMT

St. Claire Pollock

There is a place in New York City that even many New Yorkers don't know about. Just north of Grant's tomb and not far from where I was born, is a little grave sight. Maintained for over t...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:18:00 GMT

This Old Life Is Rolling

An older song that I used as a first attempt at midi and acoustic recording. I got a lot to learn about midi...being an old analog guy but you don't have to pay anybody to play on your stuff and if yo...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:04:00 GMT

New York...thinking out loud

Sometimes I wonder just how wide my perspective is. Is it just to the streets of New York?I think I know how James Joyce felt...exiled from the place he loved and writing about it from Geneva, a th...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:58:00 GMT

Chair Out On The Sidewalk

Just a few words about this song : When I was a kid, my least favorite job was taking down the garbage. If the hallway dumb-waiter was full and it usually was, you would have to go down 4 fligh...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:27:00 GMT

Not so much about people as about laws

Summer fell...that hazy smell One big job...I've me to sell Non-bidding soars, to many flaws ( besides, you know I'd screw your id ) Guess no one wants an unused kid... ... You pla...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:34:00 GMT