Wistful Girl  

Do you remember the story about the canals in Venice during the pandemic? The story was that after decades of pollution, the waters had started to clear, and you could see below the water's surface.

I'm not sure if that's a true story, but It is an excellent metaphor for my own creative life. During the pandemic, two events happened: My hard drive on my ZOOM went bad, and I started to unbox notebooks and memorabilia from the past 40 years. Among those were several notebooks from my undergraduate years at…

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Wait til your boat goes down!!! 

Another day, another dead older person. You'd think this was normal or something!!!! I will obviously alienate a few when I tell you that Jimmy Buffet said nothing to me about my life other than the Cheese Burger part. I was already a fan of cheese burgers before I was into anyone's music.

I only recently became aware that he was the king of Yacht Rock. I'm not sure how that happened since that other tool with a captain's hat Mike Love is still alive!! As I always tell people though, even Hitler had a…

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Somewhere on the lazy river (Styx) 

 saw several of my friends express grief at the passing of Robbie Robertson from the Band. He is undoubtedly an icon of a bygone era. His songs and persona are captured in good form in Scorsese's "Last Waltz."

It could be that cinematic depiction that makes us think he was more influential on the zeitgeist. The reality is he did nothing significant after 1974. His solo albums weren't great.

A parallel comparison is the Alice Cooper Group. Alice is still revered, but all of his best songs are on the greatest…

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Gems Honeyman Archives Vol. 3: Bam Bam Club Love Riot 1987 

If you've never heard my band from the '80s, The Bam Bam Club, I can guarantee you that I have a better version of every one of the songs you are about to hear in my vault somewhere. Such is the nature of my energy and time for archiving. The impetus to pull out this tape from the shoebox was news that the Capitol Expo was back!!! Also, my old drummer was playing with something called the Jeff Barnes Band, and that he, in a statement to the press, was happy about it or something!! The fact that he eats gas…

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Home taping will fill your hard drive 

I came upon www.archive.org this week. A lot of bands that i haven't heard of and a lot that I would tape over if you gave me their show on a tape (Grateful Dead raise your hand!!).  I doubt I'll listen to all 645 Robyn Hitchcock shows but I'll sample a couple!! 

Sheropi 

“Sheropi” is my latest release on Bandcamp. Like many of my tunes, it had a quick birth but a long gestation. The main riff I composed on a mini-Moog while waiting around in a tire shop!!! It's that Keith Richards quote about the antenna going up to receive the song from the ethos (don't share that with Ed Sheeran's attorneys).

The next part was coming up with a Loop to experiment over. A Korg Kaossilator is fun and very intuitive. I channeled something similar to a 16 bit video game. “Frogger” came to mind…

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The Clash "The only band that matters" The Legendary Broadcasts 

The early 2000's were the best and the worst of times for vinyl collecting. People dumped their collections for pennies on the dollar (not me bucko) as CD's ruled the roost. Now it's the same trend for CD's, bargains everywhere. 

I'm fond of a series from Coda records that features multiple disc FM broadcasts of some of my favorites. I enjoyed their Kinks and Animals compilations. My latest is a 4 disc Clash album with concerts from 1979 (pre-London Calling) to 1983 the US Festival and the big split between…

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Musical Projects 2023 

I've been chiseling away at a new/old batch of songs. Title's include “Sheropi”, “unrequited”, “Ragged out”, “Anya”, “Wistful Girl”, “Totally Bare”, “Hurt Locker”,and “On a night like this”.  You could arguably call this collection “Fun with Reverb”.  As usual, don't hold me to a release date, since i mainly have to do everything myself these days. I am enjoying the work though. If Spring Break goes well, I might have an album in there somewhere.

I've also come across a trove of JHQ shows that we digitally…

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Times Fades Away 

was my first cut corner album. My older brother claimed that they didn't “sound as good.” For the most part this was not the case but you do hear stories of the mob pressing popular records and flooding the mall stores in the 70's.

Neil Young did this live album on the “Harvest” instead of playing those hits, he gave the listener a batch of new songs. I like the band here. John Barbato's is an underrated drummer. He sounds good with Ben Keith's pedal steel.

It is a worthy vinyl Sunday selection.

Elvis Aaron Presley 

is a great “rashoman” style telling of the Elvis legend by fellow Kentuckian Alana Nash. She crafts the perspectives of 3 members of the Memphis Mafia; Marty Lacker, Lamar Fike, and Billy Smith for the definitive inside story. I'm sure Baz must have taken a look at this while making his movie.

I've read this book about 8 times. It's been my bedtime reading of late. I've been putting on 70's Elvis concerts from Youtube to get me in the mood and to induce sleep. Like Beach Boys concerts from the same era, It's…

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