my joni restrospective, phase 3 |
You've got to marvel at how one musician, one person, can have such a complex and dynamic evolution.
From this point on in my Joni listening, I pretty much just moved chronologically through h...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:40:00 GMT |
my joni retrospective, phase 2 |
So with a head spinning in reverie at the earlier work of Joni Mitchell (outlined in the previous blog), I plunged further ahead into her collection, having no idea how greatly my own music would even...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:48:00 GMT |
my joni retrospective, phase 1 |
Everyone who knows me knows that Joni Mitchell has had a big influence on my life and my music career. But I realized that all these years, I've kind of kept the ins and outs of my Joni obs...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:41:00 GMT |
All hail scales and finns! |
If I were a fish, I'd swim. Ocean to ocean, river to stream, pure and purposeful, master of my craft.
If I were Neil Finn, I'd be the best male songwriter alive today. Chord to chord, idea to song, pu...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:54:00 GMT |
porcupines and bohemians... |
what is the future of the live music industry as we know (or knew it)? it's a question i ask myself almost daily, whether thinking about my own musical activities or looking around at others sti...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:57:00 GMT |
here, take this and fly... |
While I'm still meandering my way thru what people call the "music industry" and trying to find the reasons, the means, the ends, for all this energy put into these music-related activities, there com...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:36:00 GMT |
the still summer sky... |
it was a long, hot summer -- 115 degrees one day in our East Bay area! -- a city power outage on one of the hottest days nearly sent me over the physical and psychological breaking point -- but fall i...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:32:00 GMT |
"here in san francisco, it's pouring rain..." |
Or so I modifed Joni Mitchell's lyrics from her song "Blue Motel Room" as I closed the show last night at hands-down the COOLEST laundromat around, Brainwash. And the rain really has been r...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:35:00 GMT |
river of orchids |
much like the XTC song "river of orchids" encourages us to wind back the clock, forgo the dampening hand of technology and get back to something simpler, more connected to our planet and our souls, i ...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:29:00 GMT |
let it show, let it show, let it show... |
after an extra-cramped flight over to the east coast, i landed back home in jersey a few days before Christmas for a happy holiday reunion with family and friends - AND - for a nice time playing ...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:39:00 GMT |
