Going into my freshman year of high school, most of the music I listened to was pretty standard. It was the stuff you would hear on classic rock radio, or just regular rock radio at the time. I’m not sure who I would have identified as my favorite band, but it was probably John Mellencamp... Continue Reading →
A few years back I lived in an apartment complex next to a couple of friends. We all went to a weekly bar trivia night once a week and took turns being designated driver. I never minded driving because if there’s one thing in this world that I love it’s forcing people to listen to... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago I wrote about Trapper Schoepp and the idea of the ‘begats’. The basic idea being that most of the bands and artists I listen to I arrived at directly because of another artist or band. In Trapper Schoepp’s case, I discovered his music when he opened for Jesse Malin. In my... Continue Reading →
I have a new weekly column for 'Tap Into Lower Merion & Narbeth'. This is a local online newspaper serving the Main Line areas of Philadelphia. I'll be writing each week about the Sixers. You can find my column in the sports section, with the name 'Winning Culture'. I hope you'll give it a read.
The best argument I can make for keeping an open mind about different musical genres and bands is that for the better part of my life one of my favorite bands is a four piece dream pop outfit that broke up in 1996 after releasing only two albums. In my musical biography, Belly are an... Continue Reading →
To the best that I can remember, the last time I cried was when David Bowie died. I was driving to work the morning he passed away and listening to ‘Changes’ and it got to the line “Time may change me, But you can't trace time” and I lost it. I had to pull over.... Continue Reading →
If you pick up a bible and turn to the first book of Chronicles you’ll find a long list of names. The names are the lineage of Jesus, tracked back to Adam in the garden of Eden. It’s generally known as ‘The Begats’, as in Adam begat Seth and on down the line. The... Continue Reading →
Periodically I get the urge to writing something along the lines of a musical biography. The basic idea being tracking all the music I’ve loved and talking about what was going on at the time that I discovered it, or why it meant a lot to me. It always sounds like a fun project with... Continue Reading →
I have a pretty basic system when it comes to naming characters in anything I write. I put whatever music source I happen to be listening to at the time on random, and take the name of the artist that comes up next. Once it a blue moon I’ll come up with a name differently,... Continue Reading →
