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Archive for August, 2009

Don’t Stop the Song

Songs are society’s mirror. Throughout our history, songs have reflected the tones, the attitudes, and the events of every decade. They have prepared us for war, and marched us through it; saluted our heroes and ridiculed our fools and villains; marked every kind of national and personal disaster; noted every trend and passing [...]

August 26th, 2009
Topic: composing, heros, songs Tags: , ,

Let’s do some living, after we die.

I might never have written a note were it not for the bands Jim Dickinson worked with – Big Star, The Replacements, The Stones.  I know I never would have learned to record myself if it weren’t for him.
I never had a nice couch, but I’ve spent hundreds of hours listening back in the control [...]

August 18th, 2009
Topic: people, rock music Tags: None

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