Alligator Lizards in the Air: In Search of the Sublimely Awful Lyric (Revisited)
Sean MurphyI can think of a lot of rock bands who have written some laughably awful...
The Holy Trinity, Part One: Yes
Ah, Yes. Now that Rush is rightly in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,...
End of Summer (Camp) with a Bat, a Cat and a Clown
IT IS AN INEXORABLE, if lamentable rite of passage: revisiting mementos from one’s childhood and...
The Great Gig In The Sky: An Appreciation of Rick Wright (Revisited)
Back when Pink Floyd was the first band in space, they remained mysterious, and cool,...
Burt Bacharach Meets the Brady Bunch…on Psilocybin (Revisited)
I’ve written several times about the greatest American band that never quite was, Love, here,...
First Reading, Revisited
Two years ago today.
10 for NYC by 10, on 9/11
New York City would be unimaginable without jazz, and vice versa. Here then is a...
R.I.P. Glenn C. (Remembering Glenn Cornick and Jethro Tull’s ‘Stand Up’)
Glenn Cornick was, of course, Jethro Tull’s first bassist. He and Ian did not get...
Mellow My Mind Or, A Lesson in Life Imitating Art (Revisited)
Check this out. i. Baby mellow my mind, Make me feel like a Schoolboy on...
On Losing Faith and Finding Myself Instead
AUGUST 30, 2002. I was in a church for the first time in forever. The...