One of the most tedious projects I’ve encountered in my career was working with the multi-track tapes for the album Winelight by Grover Washington, Jr. Unfortunately, despite many attempts at remediation over a long period of time, the tapes would not play for very long before the quality of the audio would begin to deteriorate. …
My buddy Dennis is full of great stories, but this is one of my favorites. Before heading to Louisiana for a temporary work assignment, Dennis’ sister tried, to no avail, to get him to attend a show at one of the local music venues. She had a great time and was sure to let him …
One horror movie I highly anticipated coming out on the movie channels as a kid was Tales From The Darkside: The Movie. It was comprised of three separate short stories, similar in nature to The Twillight Zone or Creepshow, that were used as elements of an overall plot. One of the stories was called The …
I thought of so many different songs or bands to do today it’s not even funny. The hardest part was deciding whether to work in some artists I haven’t gotten to yet or to stick with a couple of old tried-and-trues. I eventually settled on the latter. I’m glad I did too, because in researching …
Though most of my parents’ music collection was on vinyl and was typically my go-to as a young child, they also had a limited number of CDs that I would occasionally pick stuff from to listen to as well. One CD I played and sang to a lot was David Lee Roth’s Skyscraper, and, of …
While driving along the highway last night, returning from Easter festivities, I was stunned by what I saw in the sky. The moon was as big as I had ever seen it and colored with a reddish-gray hue. The amount of detail I could see was so surreal that I couldn’t help but look for …
Having a theme tends to make these write-ups a little bit easier to do. Picking the songs can be easier too, though that sometimes depends on how broad or narrow the theme is. Today being Easter Sunday, I decided to go with the theme “Jesus,” a theme I found much easier to fulfill than “eggs” …
I haven’t had the chance to play the drums in a while. The last time I did so was when I jammed with a couple of buddies of mine, Derek and Steve, before Derek ended up moving to Northern California. The first time we ever played together was probably about a year or two before …
Yesterday I came across the first of a four-part video called The Art Of Drumming, featuring a conversation between Terry Bozzio and Steve Vai, both alums of Frank Zappa’s band, which is how each of these guys initially came to my attention many years ago. Watching this video made me reminisce about the start of …
On the plane ride back from Michigan to California last Sunday, I was browsing through the in-flight entertainment and came across a miniseries called McCartney 3, 2, 1. For those that don’t know, the show is basically a conversation between Rick Rubin and Sir Paul McCartney that chronicles Sir Paul’s career. I had previously watched …