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It's alive....

2009-01-03T07:33:46Z

May be time to begin this again. I dunno. What do you think?

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Why "Michael Clayton" rocks

2007-10-30T21:07:51Z

"Michael Clayton" is an odd duck - a film with almost no sympathetic characters. Even when it's people try to do the right thing, they often end up causing chaos or harm. "There's too much confusion here; I can't get no release," as Dylan once s...

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Further on up the road...

2007-04-23T04:26:45Z

Too many losses lately. Two that you may not have known were bassist/bandleader/arranger Chris Larson and composer/arranger/saxophonist Harvey Cohen. Harvey passed in January from ongoing heart problems; Chris left us last week, a victim of a fa...

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"Hand-picked music" (?)

2007-04-15T22:10:58Z

If you're in LA, or if you're a "taste maker" elsewhere, our own local college radio behemoth, NPR's KCRW, is a must-listen. Music supervisors cull it's play list for the next hot movie/commercial/video/iptv tunes. In fact, several ex- and curr...

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Mick Taylor

2007-02-02T05:14:18Z

This digg item got me thinking about Mick Taylor, and about the experience of seeing him first with John Mayall at the Whiskey, then with the Stones at the Forum. Taylor's playing was so jaw-droppingly intense, even as a teen prodigy who succeede...

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James Brown

2007-01-02T08:20:43Z

I used to see James Brown every year when I was a teen, either at the old LA Sports Arena, the Hollywood Bowl or the Shrine Auditorium. A group of us would go, KGFJ blasting on the car radio ("burn baby burn"). Primed by the incredible TAMI...

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Got to get you off my mind...

2006-11-22T04:35:46Z

Saw the great Solomon Burke at the Gibson a few weeks ago, thanks to Josh Lampkins for great tix and backstage passes. You gotta dig a 400 pound guy who comes onstage in a wheelchair, is loaded onto a throne -yes, a throne- and sings most of the ...

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It's come to this...

2006-11-21T04:16:10Z

I dunno; maybe we should all have been listening to Mick Fleetwood's wine advice all along. In fact, maybe he was dropping hints and we were just too deaf and addled to know. "Go Your Own Way" was really telling us to try a rich Beaujolais with...

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The best show I saw...

2006-10-06T04:40:22Z

The best show I saw all summer was Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler at the Gibson Amphitheater. The sound was crisp and real, the video screens worked, and perhaps best of all, the whole thing was being shot for a forthcoming DVD, which I'll be f...

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Paul Simon

2006-09-07T23:28:28Z

Heard a very cool interview with Paul Simon by Chris Douridas (I know, I know, but it was a cool interview). It was on Douridas' KCRW show last Saturday. It's part of the iTunes Music series he produces, and it will be up on that site in a coup...

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