"We're all still here, no one has gone away" (true of everyone currently reading this, aint it so) croons Robin Williamson on "Job's Tears", the opening track...
Had a really great, tremendously exhilirating gig in Brussels last Saturday night as Wild Rumpus hit the boards live with myself, DJ Cosmo, and Video Artist...
Thoroughly enjoyed the Phillip Glass/Leonard Cohen collaboration, "Book of Longing" up at Rose Hall last Saturday night, big thanks to Judith Mallin for the...
Best fucking British band in ages, certainly, along with Jeremy Warmsley, giving hope once again for a creative resurgence/kick in the nuts to a moribund UK...
Sorry for the lengthening delays between postings but I've been busy busy busy...and now I'm packing to begin a 3 week working holidayin Northern Europe. So...
...was the ballyhooed lead-in to the beloved tv series as ululated by ABC TV's mid-60's announcer supreme Ernie Anderson--father of "Boogie Nights"/"Magnolia"...
Come Sunday and just back from Osterreich to what seems the endless summer in NYC, weather also fair and blue-scryed throughout while on tour last week and on...
--yeah I know I'm late, I'm late (check out Stan Getz's amazing track 'o the same name from his fantastic 1960 "Focus" album for yet another take on the White...
...was the watchword of the day (and should be everyday) last Friday Oct. 12th, a sensationally sunny morning when my buddy klezmeister violinist/film...
Just back from late spring/early summer in Australia playing 4 Golem shows down under, I been working baby oh so hard, staring up at this guy ('cept in...
Let's go out to the movies! Two recent rock-related films deserve extra special mention here--Firstly, Anton Corbijn's "Control", could be just about the best...
Just back from a mind-bending, transcendent out of town gig up at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, just down the round apiece from...
Well here it is 2008 (when do we recuperate?)-- and intimations of glad tidings were in the air round midnight Friday morning when mirabile dictu, Bob Fass,...
was Vampira's epistle to Jimmy, scribbled on a photo of her sitting over an open grave at Forest Lawn Cemetery in LA in the mid-50's and sent to James Dean, an...
In Spain now, funnily enough(last posting I was off to Amsterdam, remember?)...just played a 2 hour marathon solo acoustic concert last night at the Uhagon...
Here now in lovely Verona Italy in a charming hotel next to the imposing fortress Castelvecchio,the guest of the Italian composer/bandleader/upright bassist...
... The balcony was put up after the play's popularity increased....... wonderful country though, the best I feel. Speaking of good countries when can we see a...
I- talia, it was really one of the best hangs of my life, 3 days in Verona rehearsing with Danilo Gallo and his Roosters, cocks of the walk all of 'em,...
I'm a tyme study man...and I have been parsing the milliseconds/burning the midnight scamp over the last couple weeks since my last entry, lots to report and...
Writing now from lovely Estoril outside Lisbon..what a crazy week, playing two more or less consecutive festivals on 2 different continents..feelin' good,...
All the way from Paris France via Eretz Yisrael, Yael Naim at the Bowery Ballroom last Wednesday night delivered one of the most soaring, uplifting concerts...
...like the new Martin Scorsese/Rolling Stones Concert Film "Shine A Light", which I caught on the immense IMax Screen on 67th Street and Broadway yesterday--a...
Just back from supping with Caroline at the fabulous Al Fama restaurant, corner of Hudson and Perry Street here in the w-w-wild West Village-- nostalgic for...
...doin' time on planet earth. A wandering minstrel, aye, who likes to commingle with other like-minded folk, strange kin peoples of the outer and inner circle...
The sun is shining strongly this morning, the Village looks better and more inviting than ever out my window, and before I go out to get our coffee this...
Dear Readers, I am sorry to have been so remiss in posting in awhile, but simply have been, I dunno, busy is not the word for it...let us say, consumed by...
In Paris now to play the French Jeff Buckley Tribute tonight at the Hard Rock in Montmartre, word of the great rock innovator Bo Diddley's passing just...
Just back from New Haven Conn. where I was honored to play last night a full set of my 30's Chinese pop arrangements from my 2001 album "The Edge of Heaven"...
Sorry sorry SORRY (sorry!) I havent been corresponding in a while via ye olde aether interossiter (Q: which colorful 50's sci fi flick has this this dubious...