Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Creators Are People Too

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For many people who are not serious con-goers, or who don't go to a lot of live music shows, or who don't participate very much in t...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Six men, three songs, a lifetime of music

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I don't know about anyone else, but I can tell you the exact moment I decided I had to learn to play guitar: July 3rd 1985, at about 3:4...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Lucky Man Blues

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There are many ways that I was lucky growing up. My house was always full of music, as was my grandparents house (where I lived from 2 to ...
Friday, February 06, 2015

Sons, and Fathers, and Bleeding Fingers

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As I was finishing college, my father, whom I hadn't seen or heard from for 15 years (most of which time he was in prison) contacted me....
Monday, December 22, 2014

The concept of "Cultural Appropriation" is both false and harmful

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So... The subject of "cultural appropriation" is coming up again, this time in regards to Iggy Azalea (born Amethyst Amelia Kelly)...
Friday, February 14, 2014

We Are A Musical People

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Monday, October 14, 2013

Say what you will about Miley Cyrus... the girl CAN sing.

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Something that has kinda buggged me about the recent crapstrom surrounding Miley Cyrus... Many people, most of whom have probably never li...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Theater

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Something came up in conversation today... and then again, a few hours later, with an entirely different person, who doesn't even know t...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Bob Mould on Conan

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So, Bob Mould was on Conan tonight, performing from his new solo project; and it was pretty damn good... but... Frankly, it chiefly serv...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

If you are any kind of music fan at all

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Or a Henry Rollins fan, or a serious workaholic, or a nutjob fan of any kind... This is the craziest most amazing podcast I've ever hear...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Random Musical Aside...

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I'm a long time Dream Theater fan; having loved them since I was a teenager in Boston (where they were founded, out of Berklee College o...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

The more music I listen to in my life

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The more I realize, that no-one ever has been, or will be, as good as Thelonious Monk. There has never been a better piano player certain...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Long live Neil Schon and Arnel Pineda

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I just caught the DirecTV concert series live recording of Journey in Manila; with their new lead singer Arnel Pineda. For those of you wh...
Friday, August 12, 2011

A Random Favorite Song

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From a random favorite artist, Christy Moore (yeah, I know he's a commie. I don't care):
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Trying out Spotify

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I've got ten invites. Anyone want to give it a try? UPDATE: Sorry guys, I'm all out. So far I'm liking it, but there are so...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Frikken great song

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

5 years later - The Ten Greatest Metal Bands

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Actually six year later; but since I'm doing a few different five years later posts I'm throwing this in with them. Six years and ...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

What exactly is "Classic Rock", and what is "underrated"?

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There was a thread yesterday on a private music forum I frequent asking for who we thought were "underrated" classic rock bands. ...
Monday, July 11, 2011

I was just subjected to the sublime awfulness of this "song" while on hold

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... and I just had to share the misery
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Ok, they're not an "Album" band, but what is your favorite Dead studio album?

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Yeah, they're not an album band. You have to listen to them live. You have to have been to a concert. You have to have heard the bootleg...