a poem is a sermon
I wonder how the world would be if thirty years ago, instead of playing thankless gigs, a soundbyte of a show I’d done when merely seventeen (and better then, than now) would have been made, and hit the ‘net (God knows exactly how), gone viral, and been seen worldwide. Would I have been star? I […]
You know how you can tell if it’s REAL punk music? And not stadium punk, pop-punk or some other homogenized derivative? Real punk draws you into thinking and reacting to the world personally, as an individual. Not as one of the lighter-lifting masses, but as a unique voice of dissent. You may be singing the […]
I often wondered, when I was a goth (did we have that name back in ’85?) about the downward spiral of the world; and contemplated shadows, where I thought the secrets of the universe were kept. From chiaroscuro, I firmly believed, a balance quite long-lost could be restored. But just how deep I thought, I […]
1. Have you ever played in a band that performed original material? If no, then stop. We’re probably not musically compatible. 2. Name ten bands that have influenced the music you’ve played/written in original bands, in no particular order. For example, mine might be: The Beatles Bauhaus Black Sabbath The Cure Lou Reed or maybe […]
OK, so I’m now 45 years old. I’ve been playing music onstage since I was 8. That’s 37 years in some kind of band or another, on stages of all kinds, in six different states and on at least three TV channels. And here’s the bottom line, for me. I don’t want to play in […]
If you would write the soundtrack to your life, the background noise for every single hour – those shining moments when you’re at your best, as well as when you’re sad and dour – what music and what songs would fill the space when even time and motion seem to cease, stretched far beyond the […]
Having just seen (actually for the second time) the made for VH1 movie “Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story” and recently also having watched “Ray” and “The Five Heartbeats” got me thinking about all the movies I’d seen about real or fictitious musicians or singers. Musical biopics, I suppose they’re called in the trade; biographical pictures […]