Now there’s a title you don’t see every day, and the guys who made it possible aren’t everyday fellows, either.
How it turned out that in my advanced decreptitude I’ve finally found friends who not only share many of my own predilections and cultural underpinnings but also take care of each other is mildly astounding to [...]

Thanks to everyone who’s left a message or sent me one!
Yes, it’s here, the actual calendar anniversary of my birth long ago in the wartime summer of 1945 in Bryan, Texas, YE GODS!!! And here’s a picture of me (look hard) with my mother, pretty young Helen Masson from Middle River, MD, taken [...]

Interesting…
Example A: was $360K, now $279K and the owner will look at “any” offers. Example B: was $675K, now $395K. Whoa! That’s a drop of over 40 percent. The paper is full of ads with “REDUCED!” banners on them. And here the conventional wisdom was that this would never happen because Taos is an “end [...]

Here, try this:

Well, that was a night, all right. That’s “John-John” by the original Zoo Pilots at our one and only paid gig — funded by a Kent County, MD Arts Council grant, if you can believe that — at Washington College in, uh… [ponder] 1984? ‘85?? It says right here at my audio page [...]

“The planet is asleep and it’s the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.” (Sun Ra)
Is that COOL or what? I grabbed the quotation from the comments section of an article by ex-Fug and founding member of the False Prophets, Steven Taylor, at Reality Sandwich entitled “Is That a Real Reality, or Did You [...]

Exhibit A: a photograph of me in Maryland from 1977. A very fine photographer friend of mine was cleaning out his archives and sent me this while I was in Santa Fe having fish & chips with the women in the previous post. I already knew one of them when Ed took that picture, and [...]

That takes in a lot of territory, so I’d better be more specific. I’m talking about something that happened at ZoukFest, and right away that makes it tricky to describe.
There’s nothing quite like ZoukFest. Not only are the instructors all world-class musicians, but we all eat, sleep, and share bathrooms together. There’s no special physical [...]

I know, I know, but we have to call it something.
I was having the usual midweek ZoukFest freak-out. All that exposure to transcendental musicianship, wow! Or oy… On the one hand it was like swallowing holy razor blades, while on the other hand, the antidote for same. At first I started auguring in, like a [...]

Just a heads-up that FotoFeed’s been updated. I have so many good ZoukFest pictures, I may run these for a while longer.

First of all, I’m here by myself. My wife decided a few days before ZoukFest started that what she’d like most in the world, even more than the fantastic music and hanging out with friends, was a whole week to herself. Honesty is everything, so I knew she meant it. I figure it’s an earth [...]