I never felt the need to write about the passing of my heroes. I was 7 when John Lennon was shot and I remember being at the St. Anthony’s roller-skating party at that age mourning his loss. I couldn’t skate well and it wasn’t a very good night. I still have yet to see a [...]
Here’s a Christmas song I wrote years ago that I gave an updated recording to this week in my little “home recording studio”. This tune was originally written in 1994 for the Boogie Man Smash (my then band) X-Mas Album. It was a cassette only release we gave away at a holiday gig at Cedars [...]
This is my Univox. The only guitar to survive an instrument theft from my Ford Econoline that was parked outside of the YMCA I was working at in Youngstown, Ohio one summer. It was gotten on trade that I would have regretted if it weren’t for this guitar being part of it. I traded a [...]
Today, August 4th, is the non-disputed* official birthday of New Orleans born Buddha-of-the-horn Louis Armstong (*I guess the historians have decided that he really wasn’t born on the 4th of July as was publicized and stated by Louis himself). In honor of this I am posting the track Savoy Blues which Louis recorded in 1927. [...]