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• The Drummer for Planet Earth’s House Band

  August 24, 2010 in Music

  Richie Hayward, the drummer and one of the co-founders of little feat, passed away from complications of pneumonia on August 12, 2010. He was 64. He was influential, underrated and too young to go. During my early teen years I was exposed to this remarkable band, first on the floor of the family summer house [...]

• The incredible and the casual

  August 13, 2010 in Music

  As there seems that so many people are formed with or without the sensitivity for music or the arts, there are those too who cause the entire playing field to change shape or double in size. They sometimes are the odd birds who approach an instrument in a new way that defies what has gone [...]

• The will to reconnect

  January 13, 2010 in Music Business, Uncategorized, mobile tech

  It doesn’t seem right to have the purchase of a new device be the reason for me to return to a long form blog post here on PIBC. I’d hoped it would be a return to art, music or poetry; still, an opportunity to share my thoughts about this needs to go beyond the restraints [...]

• In the hands of a master

  April 9, 2009 in Music, Uncategorized

  I have read many accounts of musicians and non-musicians over the years of the moment when their paradigm was shifted, their mind blown, the door opened by hear a particular song or artist. Some of these are typical while others are more obscure. The Beatles, Coltrane, Hank Williams, Miles Davis, Hendrix… they all end up [...]

• mastering the 20 minute mile

  January 12, 2009 in Poetry

  1/12/09 Learning the detail of the suburban winter Zipped up steps start slow and stooped The crime scene, deflated corpses of holiday saints on the lawn, Waiting for a breath of hot air to revive them, early resurrection Each squirrel runs a confused fast track The local paper’s attempt at survival Creates plastic covered headline [...]