At least at one point in time, a lot of people knew the role of Black Sabbath in music. They basically had the first major commercial release of a style of music that is, today, the root of all heavier rock music and even heavy metal from their famous albums from the late 60s and [...]

Thom makes some very valid points in a December 23rd Op-Ed about the state of America versus other countries. That we’ve rewarded our smartest people with higher incomes in the financial industry versus innovators and engineers; and that the USA may not be “#1″ any more as our economy dwindles and our infrastructure falls out [...]

Little did I know that I’d made it on some New York Times blogs, be it years ago.  In both cases the original bloggers directly responded to my question/inquiry and in one case even included my original post in the blog itself. Once in a blue moon I Google myself to see what the world according to [...]

Hit play to start listening: Nigerian, African Funky Music from Fela Kuti. These are both about 10 minute long sweeping African funk songs in the very traditional Nigerian style (at least as I know it). If you check out an earlier post titled Blaxploitation, Afrique, funky tunes, and early 70’s film, I posted up a [...]

I hate to join on the bandwagon of one more guy talking about this movie. Carrie and I actually see a lot of movies like this, particularly at the Sundance Film Festival where we usually see 10-20 movies a year and about 5 or so are usually awesome… Slumdog Millionaire fits this category. So this [...]

Time for a post on The Funky… I posted this yesterday quickly and in haste, but came back to it, re-wrote it and cleaned it up. So I thought I’d delete yesterday’s post and replace it with this one. Click play to start listening. The first song has about a 30 second intro. Be sure [...]

Think “Good Morning Vietnam” and those little jeeps and vehicles cruising around Siagon… In my spare time I’m restoring and old Vietnam-era military trailer to use as a possible base camp on Southern Utah adventures. It’s a pretty sweet old trailer that’s become popular with a lot of 4WD explorers called a M416. They are [...]

There is something I call “The Analog.” Not that there is anything wrong with digital. What you are I are doing right now is digital and it has it’s place and time. The analog is rooted in the old school. An old gauge that sweeps and might not be 100% right but is probably pretty [...]

I came across a quote in an article in last month’s Vanity Fair, about the old blind piano player Geroge Shearing from Kerouac’s On The Road that inspired me to post it: Dean and I went to see Shearing at Birdland in the midst of the long, mad weekend… Shearing began to play his chords; [...]

I thought I’d post a little on John Coltrane. Hit play to start listening: These are some of the popular, legendary Coltrane ballads. The smooth, soft, touching songs that just jam; the legendary Coltrane. These are some of his most famous. The oddest thing is I wasn’t really that into Coltrane until relatively recently (post [...]