Fictional Album #2: Tiny Montgomery Says Hello- Dylan's Summer of Love

1966--underfed, under-slept, running on chemicals, influencing the world. 1967--Rested, fed, more or less healthy. I've been a fan...

The First Podcast...Happy Birthday Ringo

UPDATE : curious about the bed of Ringo drum-bits underneath my talking? Download it here--it's just a 3 minute-long loopy thing. http:/...

Similar Themes, Episode 1: Mexico. Young Ladies. Rockers.

I present to you two songs with at least a couple things in common.  Perhaps they both come from a long line of tradition, but I just find t...

Red Letter, Black Sweater--a poem, dedicated to two songs

In summer/fall of 1990, I finally got my first CD player, and first few CDs. I was 17, senior in high school, a bit tripped out, love sick a...

"Ho hum. I’m as good as bunnies – and you know how good bunnies are." *

*(the author of that brilliant quote will be revealed at the end) Are you like me? Do you wish you were playing music right now, but can...

Reframing....The Doors. A friendly, light pop group.

I have a past with The Doors. I guess I shouldn't be ashamed, because a lot of people do, and a lot of people have never gotten over t...

Jerry Garcia's opinion of The Monkees--1967

A clip I put together from a 1967 interview, in which, pressed to put down The Monkees (yawn...), Jerry mans up and, like most musicians at...