Category: general thoughts

The Real Santa Claus

Yes indeed, Santa is real.  I’ve always believed in him.  Someone on Facebook recently posed that question, and I responded with an abbreviated version of the proof. If you look at the legend of Santa Claus as allegory, it’s fairly easy to unravel the mystery. Santa Claus is a spirit.  The children’s ancient wondrous tale […]

Equity In Creativity

Much has been said lately of the need to revisit the way recording artists are being paid.  Especially now, in the midst of the pandemic driven life changes.  The old accounting system is hopelessly arcane in this information age.  Performance royalties are still based upon the old so-many-cents per spin at a radio station, which […]

Producer Psychology 101

In the course of my career as a musician, I’ve been blessed to have done things that other aspiring musicians have only dreamed of, complete with minor exposure to the national and international stage; to have had the opportunity to at least climb the foothills of that mountain.  And I’ve been particularly blessed to have […]

Love = Time ??

As many know, there is a familiar saying that “love equals time.”  While it’s true that we naturally gravitate toward activities and relationships that we love, those that satisfy our passions, there is a definite difference between love and time.  The saying is partially correct, there is indeed a correlation, but they are not equal. […]

The Benefits of Silliness

Being serious, thoughtful, introspective all the time can be dull; evocative and provocative at times, yes, but dull.  All work and no play makes Jack …, etc. Sometimes it’s necessary to be just plain silly.  To engage in nonsense has its benefits for the soul. “It’s okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at […]

Musical Influence

Although I scarcely ever go out anymore into the bar music scene, I ventured out this past weekend to check out a band that I had been wanting to see and to scope out a room for its future show potential.  I ran into a friend there who invited me to sit at a table […]