The local band Still Time got me thinking about band names again.
Okay, truth is, I’m always thinking about band names – it’s just part of who I am. The great thinkers of the world consider ways to end poverty, spread peace and discover cures for diseases.
I think up band names.
When I interviewed Still Time, which […]
Posted on September 26th, 2007 by Pat
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Among the many things I liked about the movie “Superbad” was the music.
On the one hand, funk songs by Curtis Mayfield, Jean Knight and Bootsy Collins might not seem to match a film about geeky white kids trying to score before going to college. And yet at the same time it was just oh-so right.
You […]
Posted on September 21st, 2007 by Pat
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For the record, I still think George Harrison got a raw deal. But now Bruce Springsteen is facing a threat of legal action – before his latest album is even out — and I’m hoping history doesn’t repeat itself.
Harrison — the quiet Beatle —was sued by the Chiffons in the ’70s for his song “My […]
Posted on September 6th, 2007 by Pat
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Whenever someone dies doing something they love — say, for example, knitting or wrestling grizzly bears — other people feel compelled to shake their heads somberly and say: “Well, he would’ve wanted to go that way.”
I know we have an inherent need to find a bright side to premature deaths. But when someone says something […]
Posted on September 5th, 2007 by Pat
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