Four days after the fact, and my head is still buzzing from the aftermath of a truly great musical event. The Hardly Strictly Bluesgrass 5 festival of San Francisco was a calvalacade…
Final Cut Pro Lessons from a Master
Final Cut Pro is one of the great tools for the independent film and video producers. It’s my editing tool of choice for working on this epic documentary of mine, as well…
Let’s Get Chet Helms into the Rock Hall of Fame!
In a perfect world according to yours truly, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would have already inducted Richard Berry, the Kingsmen, Paul Revere & the Raiders, the (original) Wailers, the…
Hail Hail, Phil Dirt!
DJ Phil Dirt, one of the big organizers of the legendary KFJC “Maximum LOUIE LOUIE” marathon is retiring from his shift at KFJC radio. Here’s some information about an upcoming tribute to…
Moving forward …
When dealing with literally hundreds of videotapes, it’s a serious challenge to organize all the various elements. It’s all too easy to overwhelmed by all the different pieces. With my LOUIE LOUIE…
Get your New Orleans music fix, donate to recovery
I received a nice little shout-out from the Shout! Factory: “In the spirit of recovery, Shout! Factory will be donating all of the profits from sales made from the Shout! Factory website…
The Death of Another Record Store
Another independent record store has bitten the dust. Compact Disc Warehouse, the only independent record store in Sunnyvale, the largest city between San Francisco and San Jose, California, has become another casualty…
More thoughts on LOUISiana
All the eyes of the world are on the demaged gulf coast of LOUISiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Such a terrible tragedy made worse by an ineffective bureacracy. We’ll be talking about this…
RIP: Gatemouth Brown
My condolences go out to the family and friends of Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, who died on Saturday. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, was an extremely versatile musician that played blues, country, jazz, Cajun, and…
A Gallery of Great Rock Bands!
With a tip of the hat to the good folks at Davie Allan’s KING OF THE FUZZ Yahoo group, I just found out about a wonderful website with group shots of a…