in the late ’70s and early ’80s i studied voice with stewart brady, the voice teacher at the american conservatory theater (a.c.t.) in san francisco. a family friend was an opera singer who provided me with an introduction; i studied with stewart for a little over eight years. i knew that stewart had taught kathryn [...]
the fab faux is a beatles tribute band… THE beatles tribute band. founded by david letterman bassist will lee and featuring tonight show guitarist jimmy vivino, the band plays stunningly accurate reproductions of beatles songs… sometimes playing entire albums, sometimes with horns and strings, but always with obvious love and respect. it is amazingly exciting, [...]
i’ve been collecting these for a while… don’t they make a great cd’s worth of song titles for cd #2? age is no longer a barrier for me in bed escape rod’s alleviation do not regret on the past i searching for new friends forget about dictionaries diameter performance is now free to try receive [...]
i’ve recently come across some musicological finds… one on the web, and a couple buried deep in the pile that was my home recording studio (which might live again some day). ‘the lost gaucho’ is a collection of steely dan songs from the ‘gaucho’ sessions. most of them didn’t make it onto the album, but [...]
immediately after sending my cd off to be mass-produced, i recorded two more songs (doh!). one of them has perfectly wonderful lap steel guitar throughout, played by michael fagrey. i was listening to the song the other day (‘the guy in room 7′, about a permanent resident at a sleep clinic in switzerland), and decided [...]