I’m Old Enough to Remember…

Mar 11, 2016 | Music, Reflection

I’m old enough to remember… …a town filled with World War II veterans, only that’s not what they were to me. They were my dad and my uncles and my aunt and my neighbors and my coaches and the people who owned and worked in stores and shops. Something like 1200...

Pittsburgh, Music and Bruce Irving

Mar 5, 2016 | Music

Speaking of friends, as I was just doing on a Facebook post, I had great ones while I attended Carnegie Mellon University. Crag Collins set up a recording studio in his dorm room and we gathered there often for recording and parties. Eric Maata and Lou Trott were...

The Doors: New Book, Long-Ago Moments

Feb 7, 2016 | Music, Reflection

I’m reading Mick Wall’s “Love Become a Funeral Pyre,” his history of the Doors. The book is wonderful. It pulls together most of what’s been written about Morrison to this point and brings into play Wall’s own relatively recent interviews with the band and various...