First, I thought I’d post for a few guys out there who should dig these songs. The first is Scott Amendola Band. Scott Amendola is the pretty f’n killer drummer in the first song (wait until about 6-7 minutes in — this guy just rips). I heard this song via the Pandora music player. Turns [...]

One thing I forgot to mention in all of these posts is what it was like growing up in the Shoumatoff household… Really, there aren’t “words that can describe it,” as good friends & fam can testify to… But one thing was the plethora of guitars that were always floating around the house. Brazilian, old [...]

  Sorry, hitting play is mandatory to reading this post… I thought it would be “mind blowing” idea to post about good hippie rock from the early 70′s that was “complex!”  But now I realize just how retarded that thought is.  Of Course there was good hippie rock in the 70′s. And even stuff that was [...]

This post is sort of like preaching to the quoir.   If you haven’t read the book then these quotes might bounce right off you.  That is -  unless you have a real adventure about yourself; enjoy seeing things not in all of their beauty – as beautiful.  Wanterlust, quirkyness, a love of America…   If you have this [...]