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When I was a little kid, growing up in the last century, I never really thought too far ahead, it just was not in my nature. I still don...

So yeah, it's weird. I've been reading Neil Young's book, and listening to his records, and learning some of his songs too.  ...

Just finished Neil Young's "Waging Heavy Peace." Loved it.  Not much to say, except Neil is a great story-teller, and a re...

Yes, people disagree about stuff, I mean, pretty much everything. Always will. It makes you figure out what you believe and what you don...

Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" is a stunner. It is over the top, balls to the wall film-making of the highest or...

If you (like me) read lots of books by and about musicians, you often read about musicians writing about their influences.  And it's of...

I know it's Christmas… so yeah, have a Merry Christmas…  I wanted to wade into the R. Kelly vs. Jim Derogotis story .  Even though it...

I wrote about buying Pete Townshend's autobiography over Neil Young's autobiography in a blog post here…  and you know what? I wa...

Yesterday I was still in Elvis-land.  Played some Elvis songs at our little rehearsal studio with another guitarist.  It's amazing what ...

I don't want to turn this into the Elvis channel, but the King is on my mind, getting ready for a performance of some Elvis songs in ear...

So here is an interesting question (at least to me), what exactly is an "Elvis song?" Well, it's not so easy to define.  He w...

One of my friends knows I'm on an Elvis kick and he sent me this song that Phil Lynott wrote about the demise of the King… "Me, ...

In January we will be doing some Elvis songs, or I guess, since Elvis was not a song-writer, songs that Elvis covered, for a gathering of fo...

This aired on MTV twenty years ago. I always thought it was a masterpiece too . It's funny, Nirvana was a very loud, very electric band ...

According to this science article - "Life does not exist."  Another example of how we have built our understanding of the world a...

Reality? What is reality ?  Maybe there's only "reality."  With quotation marks. Even the most solid, real things sometimes s...

Maybe the struggle, the over-coming of obstacles, the concerted effort despite the vast pool of those twin dark matter evils -  hostility an...

We can imagine we live in a world of large and powerful forces, forces which we can't name, can't understand, can't control. We ...

I hate stories about the weather. Someone's house gets blown down, or the river washes it away, and some well-coiffed TV personality wit...

I always have to have a book to read. I'm between books right now, I have a few on my "wish list" but haven't actually plu...