The Doctor Is In

One of life’s great pleasures for me is discovering new music. Now, mind you, this is rarely new in the sense of being a new group which has just broken onto the scene; in most cases, I’m discovering music, artists, or groups which have been around for some time, unbeknownst to me.
One such artist I […]

For those of you who are guitar players (as I was in a former life), or admire guitar players, or have played air guitar when you thought no one was looking, here’s a rather amazing performance by John Butler.
 

 
What amazes me most about this performance is that he is working his magic on a 12-string […]

If you’re like me, your Christmas shopping is best preserved for those special, quiet moments on Christmas Eve, when not a creature is stirring — because the they’re all caught in traffic at the Mall. But this gift recommendation is a pretty easy hit, especially for the music lover on your Christmas list.
My own taste […]

A discussion of the difference between grace and Karma, riffing off a quote from U2’s Bono.

Cleaning out your garage is not exactly my idea of a great way to spend the weekend. But, every now and then, you find some little treasure that makes it all worthwhile. Such was my good fortune last month.
Amidst the boxes filled with old check registers, broken parts from kids’ bikes, and other largely disposable […]

OK, I’m not much of a quote-link-comment blogger, but this is a must see: An interview with Alice Cooper (HT: Chrenkoff, Tim Blair–gotta love those Aussies).
Alice Cooper was over the top, even for me–and I was a fan of King Crimson and Kiss. Never much cared for gross-out rock (vomiting blood? beheadings?? Maybe this is […]

Sometimes you run across a situation which makes you laugh–not because it is inherently funny, but because of the element of surprise, irony, or unpredictability. This week I stumbled across just such wonderful revelation.
Ever since my college years — when I was an aspiring guitarist and composer with far more dreams than talent — I […]