The Song Remains The Same or, The Agony of Influence (Revisited)
Sean MurphyTwo thoughts from T.S. Eliot: April is the cruelest month… Whatever. Good poets borrow; great...
Wagner at 200 or, Get Your Götterdämmerung On (Revisited)
Or, If Loving Wagner is Wrong, I Don’t Want To Be Reich. (More on one...
Amiri Baraka, R.I.P.
R.I.P., Brother Baraka. Thank you for ‘Blues People’; Thank you for Dutchman’. Eternal gratitude for...
Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine, Redux (Revisited)
Talk about better living through chemistry! Albert Hofmann, the chemist who invented/discovered LSD, has passed...
Just Like a Big Daydream in the Middle of the Night: The Return of Shuggie Otis (Revisited)
True story: Already an industry veteran although barely legal drinking age, Shuggie Otis was asked...
1967 and the Prog-Rock Progenitors* (Revisited)
Progressive rock reached its full potential in the ‘70s, but its roots trace back to...
Wishing For Eternity So Dick Cheney Could Spend It In Disgrace (Revisited)
I’m not sure what it says about me, but I’ve gone on record declaring, at...
Peter Gabriel & Me: The Power of Music (Revisited)
The face this guy makes when he listens to “Here Comes the Flood” by Peter...
Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength: Rush’s ‘Permanent Waves’ (Revisited)
How unbelievably appropriate that Permanent Waves was released on January 1, 1980? In virtually every...
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before*
Let me tell you a story. It involves a white male born in a steadily...