I missed Keith Moon’s birthday yesterday. Sorry. I never met the man, but here’s a story as it was told to me by studio guitarist/friend Dave Cohen, in 1969 or ’70. Keith was playing on a BBC Orchestra recording (Keith Moon?! Studio gig? BBC Ork? Yeah, right. OK, I said it was apocryphal) when the [...]
I heard a rumor from a close friend yesterday that another old friend, percussionist/songwriter/publisher Ralph MacDonald is fighting lung cancer. I have to check it out, and I will, and it will distress me if it’s true, because this is a towering musician who enriches the music world every time he hits a conga, slaps [...]
Got an email from dialog recordist/filmmaker Brian Miksis with a short teaser from a tape made of a bluegrass band, the Redwood Canyon Ramblers, I was in in the early ’60′s, in Berkeley, along with mandolin player Scott Hambly and banjo player Pete Berg. Needless to say the simple existence of the tape shocked, then [...]
This is a round-up post of the last couple months and an apologia for not keeping current. Same reason as always: preoccupied with performing. I’ve been doing some open-mic stuff in the area with singer-guitarists Pete Tamburrini and Iris Cohen. We’re promising, tho we need a lot of work. But it’s awesome to be appreciated [...]
I’ve been having one long brain-fart since Feb., well, really, since late-ish last year, in the way of keeping my Blog current, but here’s something I did do while I wasn’t doing that. Did you get that? You did? Could you explain it to me? Anyway, it’s another thing I learned from Doc Watson, at [...]
Hard not to notice Dr. John was inducted into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame the other day. Easy to see why he was. To my ears, this New Orleans dude has been one of the most original rock musicians on the scene over the last thirty or forty years. For his whole musical [...]
Power-Pickers, sad to say, for me at least, seems to have gone the way of so many blogs: oblivion through starvation. This will be my first post since, I think, December, and that’s too bad, because there seems to be a spark of interest within a small, sweet group of musicians calling themselves the Pleasantville [...]
Played another Circle of Friends gig a week ago. Came off better than last few times. Maybe I’m finally starting to get the hang of performing as a single. Anyway, this is the show; the tell will come later. Happy holidays. CA
This will be a test to see how long it takes me to successfully link to Youtube. Here’s my first shot out of the solo cannon: Sweet Georgia Brown.
Still struggling to remember what a blog is supposed to be, i.e., a periodical posting with some sort of regularity. Also still struggling with putting a live act together, either me as a single, or ????. Enclosed is bad video, almost good audio of Windy and Warm I did in a gig at a Pleasantville [...]
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