I can’t remember where I learned about furniture. It could have been in the UCLA songwriting class taught by Phil Swann or it may have been while studying with the extraordinary Harriet Schock. I do know that after it was explained to me, I started noticing that all of the Read more…
It’s been a long time since I wrote my 1st song – “me, Steve and the Bear”. I was 14 and had a visceral, heart-trobbing, tear-jerking, knee-knocking crush on Terry McKenna (i.e.- Bear). I plunked it out on the piano & recorded it on my boombox. I might still have the tape? Read more…
It’s been almost a year now since we lost our cherished, cynical, ridiculously smart and perfectly tart double bass player, Sanderson Poe. He was a musician’s musician – a rebel through and through. A man that knew his mind and was not afraid to say it. He was also one Read more…
Who likes change? Not me. At least not to my computer/phone/fax/twisty-turny-button filled things that are supposed to work better and quicker and smarter (and do, but only after you have spent 26 hours re-learning how to make them work!!!). I just got a new device. A new work computer. It Read more…