Although audiences over the years might not have all caught on to everything that Bach was doing, he clearly did it Soli Deo Gloria (“for the glory of God alone”), writing “S.D.G.” on his printed scores. He wrote for a different audience—an audience of One. The reason that I...
the song, and she isn’t amazing anyway at actually recording to live instruments. But I definitely made it worse. Within minutes we were arguing – her telling me she couldn’t do it, me telling her to just try for god’s sake. By the time we pressed record she was angry and ...
Fifty Foot Hose evolved from a band called The Ethix, who were a mainstay of the “San Francisco peninsula scene in ’65 and ’66”. The Ethix had a regular gig in San Mateo. “Over the year that we played there, Wayne The Harp (from AUM) was our guitar player. When he left we...
hurricanes in little over a year (admittedly, one of these was mostly a bad rain storm by the time it reached my little town; two, unfortunately, were much more). And then, of course, there’s the anxiety and anger that comes from reading the current political news and surviving an ele...
was some kind of gimmick, but he was creating real honest to god chords—and his melodies sounded like you'd known them forever the minute you heard them. This one, for instance. Plus, he could play everything from Jellyroll Morton to waaay out there. If I was hip, I'...
and not dabao home and not god and not it and not lose and not producing was and not resold and not their master and now are you on yo and now at last youre and now china and now he felt sure and now i suck up to and now im missin wis and now is your turn and now the bit...
Well, yes. It’s been many years since I’ve read William Trevor, my own personal god of the short story, but I’d rank Small Things as equal to the best of his work. Since I’ve nothing new to add to the many fine reviews I’ve read of Small Things, however, I’ve decided ...
Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she’s witnessed—inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a ...
ALT: Taylor Young [of Nails, Twitching Tongues, Deadbody, and God’s Hate] produced the record, and you’ve got features from Ian Shelton from Militarie Gun and Pierce Jordan from Soul Glo. How did those collaborations come about and what was it like to work ...
then you break into the bit of the song you want everyone to know. One song I wrote a little after ‘Please Please Me’ was my best attempt at a preamble: ‘If I Fell’. [Sings]‘If I fell in love with you, would you promise to be truuue…’ Then after the line, ‘just ...