And do you remember? When too much time was mine… When I was a teenager, I liked nothing better of a Friday evening than lying on my bed, listening to Bauhaus. Periodically my father would fling open the bedroom door and – his oft-professed atheism notwithstanding – forcefully instruct me to ‘turn that bloody racket …
The story of Digable Planets begins during the late 1980’s in the culturally rich City of Brotherly Love. Ishmael ‘Butterfly’ Butler was based in Seattle, interning at Arthur Russell’s Sleeping Bag Records in New York, and intermittently visiting his grandmother and father in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, studying at the prestigious HBCU Howard University in Philadelphia, Craig …
“There were times when being together was fun. And there were times when being apart was even more fun. And there was times when there was nothing but time. And that was no fun”. Interesting lyric? Lee Hazlewood isn’t for everyone. The above verse from If It’s Monday Morning may be a good litmus test …
March 24 is the birthday of two of the most legendary bassists in music history: Carol Kaye and Holger Czukay. Carol Kaye was a rarity in the male-dominated Hollywood industry of the 1960s- a female musician who could outperform most of her male counterparts. She was the go-to bassist for Los Angeles studio sessions and …
“He’s such a polite young man. And handsome, too”, said Mrs. Riley as she looked at her granddaughter Carrie. What she really meant was that Jordon Richman was wealthy. True enough. In fact, the young Richman was probably the most polite (and wealthiest) businessman in the Parish. Everyone liked him. From a respected old New Orlean family. The Richman’s gave …
Not much is known about Canada. It lies to the north of the USA, shrouded in forests and sparsely populated. Its primary export is logs. Its people keep themselves to themselves, stoically going about their business in a quiet, undemonstrative way; paying their taxes ungrudgingly, and voting for moderate political parties. It would be mysterious …
I’m Your Man’s cover shows Leonard Cohen, 53 years old, decked out in shades and a suit, eating a banana. Well, it’s more complicated than that. It shows a man who had been at the precipice of collapse, plagued by depression so debilitating he couldn’t even get out of bed. It shows a man who …
Tangerine Dream (an avant-garde German band founded by Edgar Froese during the pivotal era of the late 1960s) started out primarily influenced by what could be considered the first space rock tracks (such as “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” & “A Saucerful of Secrets” from Pink Floyd) yet improvised and experimented …
It was strange to come back from my one-year Mossad training in the Middle East and return to my small life as a taxi chauffeur. In the end they decided that I should be the test person for a new super-spy-car that was supposedly better than Bond’s Aston Martin. From the outside it was a …
We were having our weekly meeting to discuss the latest operations.I starred at my people- those wankers, I hated them all. But since I had taken over my father’s crime syndicate after he passed away last year, I had to deal with them.Franco this loser was trying to explain the missing amount of protection money. …
