A note I found on my windshield after work one day back when I was part of the team trying to unionize Musicians Institute in the early 2000s.
Category: From The Field
Jazz!
When this photo popped up in my 'random movie maker' with Charlie Parker for a sound track. Robin, and Catherine at Carole's birthday party 1992.
Mom and Les Visit 1984
From a journal. All we packed into a day. Hollywood!
Camping Mount Pinos 1983
I used to love camping on top of Mount Pinos. For a bunch of years in a row I'd go up for a few weeks in September.
Alice Vs. The Bowling Ball
Shaan Puri -The Crazy Story of Charity Water
Shaan is a great story teller and the story of Scott Harrison's journey to creating Charity Water is an amazing story. This clip comes from the My First Million podcast episode. 'How To Get the Most Out of Every Event…'
Shaan Puri – My First Million Podcast – On why people hate crypto.
Note that Shaan himself holds a bunch of bitcoin and is involved in all sorts of blockchain shenanigans. This clip comes from their episode, The Next Big Social Media Network Will Be On the Chain. Nader Al-Naji Tells Us Why. I wanted to share it because it so succinctly describes what triggers me about it all.
Eureka Waterfront – Humboldt Bay
Les Dudek and Friends
Steve Behrendt (drums, just out of the shot camera left), Les Dudek, Stevie Nicks, Boz Scaggs, Yours Truly. 1981 Bodega Bay Club.
This was a one-off fundraiser for the Bodega Bay. Boz and Stevie were special guests. But our trio rocked. Les had a killer guitar sound and sang his ass off. I don't know who the photographer was (it could have been that I asked someone to take a shot with my camera), but I imagine there were other shots from that night. It would be fun to find some of those.
Hail Eris
Eris, the Greek goddess of Chaos.
This was the image I used to represent my 'Found', collection of soundbites CD in 1996. I had a lot of help with this image from my friend and photographer extraordinaire, Ed Giunca.
This was the image I used to represent my 'Found', collection of soundbites CD in 1996. I had a lot of help with this image from my friend and photographer extraordinaire, Ed Giunca.
Big Bad Bob Bayless – Ametron 1990
James Phillips would have taken the photo. His handy work (the z's) written in the still-developing Polaroid.
These were the days when The Wild Blue Yonder was playing Lingerie and The Central. Bob and Maryann had an awesome Hollywood crib where they were filming the 'Couch Concert' series. Their band, Hollywood Wing Rats, were gigging as well. To keep a roof over our heads a bunch of us, including Danny Carey, were working in the AV Rentals section of Ametron. Oh man, these were some fun and crazy times.
Frank & Quincy 1984: Portrait Of An Album
Didn't know about this! Frank would have been almost 70 when he recorded this and he sounds great! And what a band! George Benson and the Brecker Brothers, just to mention a few. (I haven't watched the whole doc yet but the IMDB cast list seems a little off, at least it doesn't mention Ray Brown on bass.) Watch it on Amazon.
Filmed in 1984, Portrait Of An Album follows Frank Sinatra as he records his album L.A. Is My Lady with producer Quincy Jones, who also conducts the sessions.
Whether To Laugh Or Cry
Do You Know Where You're Going To
The rabbit hole of a melody that keeps popping into your head. In this case, Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To). What an interesting form! Odd measures, key changes, complex chord changes. And great bass playing! It was written by Michael Mercer and Gerry Goffin. First recorded in 1973 by Thelma Houston!
Meanwhile, I have to agree with Elton here… Where did actual songs go?
Elton John: "You look at most of the records in the charts – they're not real songs"
Elton John has criticised modern pop music claiming that "proper songs" have become "too sophisticated" for the UK charts.