Been A Minute…

Man, it’s been a whirlwind of a few days. From early last week’s series of surprise anxiety attacks, to finding out my grandma passed away Saturday, to an arctic blast of sub-zero temps. If there’s one thing I can say is that it’s not been a boring few days. Friday morning my brother had an […]

The Prince Of F*****G Darkness : RIP Ozzy

Imagine being 6 or 7 years old. Still quite impressionable and easily rattled by the creepy, eerie, and otherwise “dark” side of existence. Your older brother, 12 or 13, throws a record on mom and dad’s turntable and says “Listen to this.” The needle drops and from out of those Pioneer tower speakers comes 100 […]

Things Keep Moving, Changes Imminent, RIP Uncle Joe

It’s been a heavy week so far. The impending move of our oldest is officially happening. They found an apartment in Indianapolis. Something that’s reasonably priced but not a dump either. Reasonable price and not a dump is a rarity in the world of renting these days, so I’m happy they found something. There was […]

Cemetery Walk, Olivia Rodrigo, and Feeling The Feels

I was still feeling sore today. Not enough to stop me from being active, but enough for my brain to talk me out of being active(damn you, brain.) Still, common sense and the need for some quality sunshine prevailed over ‘Lazy John’ and his whispers of “nah, just go home”. I headed to the Beyer […]

In Memory Of Dusty Hill

ZZ Top are a part of my DNA. I was spoon fed via Pioneer turntable and box speakers a steady dose of Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, and ZZ Top in my formative years. I was a classic rock toddler, which at the time it was the new shit. Classic rock in the mid-70s was Buddy Holly, […]

Perspective

A guy died at work yesterday. I didn’t know him. He was a contract worker who had only been at our facility for a couple of weeks. He was on the shop floor running one of the CMM machines. I barely know a handful of machinists, and ones I’ve worked with(generally speaking) for the last […]

EVH 1955-2020

Everyone has their “entry” Van Halen album, at least those of us that grew up in the late-70s and 80s. Oddly enough it wasn’t an older brother or that dude at the record shop that always looked tired and smelled like incense that got me into Van Halen at the age of 5. It was […]

In Memory Of Leon Redbone

Leon Redbone was one of those characters that seemed to have stepped out of an E.L. Doctorow novel, or an Our Gang comedy. Playing Tin Pan Alley shuffles and ragtime ballads on the guitar and whistling like a drunken bum with just a swig of whiskey left in his flask. Except instead of appearing out […]

Richard Swift : 1977-2018

Photo by Larry Crane I won’t lay it on thick here, as I can’t say I’m a longtime fan of Richard Swift’s work. What I will say is that as a producer, Richard Swift produced three of the best sounding indie records in the last 10 years. His work with Damien Jurado on albums Maraqopa, […]

R.I.P. Chris Cornell : Long Live That Voice

Truth be told I haven’t followed Chris Cornell’s music career since that first Audioslave album. Call it moving forward with ones life or just not really being into what he’d been doing since “Show Me How To Live” burned into my brain. But that’s not to say he didn’t make a HUGE impression on the […]