We just stopped off in New York for an overnight with the kids on our way to the Shore for a vacation. I was telling my kids stories from when I would first make trips in from Long Island in the 1970s and ’80s and I was reminded of this one. Shortly after my uncle …
Thanks to Kevin Guiney for transitioning the old sites into this new format. Thanks also goes to Kevin for taping the solo set I did at the Museum of Fine Arts show on Aug 10, opening for Tift Merritt. The setting, in case you have not had the chance to see a show there, is …
This is the full, unedited version of a post I wrote for Boston Magazine. With my day job marketing real estate entering the semi-dormant state of the dead of summer, my attention veers back to music, specifically, songs that I love to play during the summer. Since I am trying out Spotify, I will attempt …
I grew up with a guy, let’s call him Neil Eruzioni. His father was a barber and – at least back then, when I was growing up in New York – used to cut the hair for wise guys who “played bocce” at the… let’s call it the “Fisherman’s Club,” an Italian-American social club. Neil’s …
(from Boston Magazine.com) For the past few years, I have had this website with the ironic title of Part Time Man of Rock. We all know there is not supposed not be any “part time” in “rock.” When my wife was a kid, she misheard the Kiss song “Rock & Roll All Night” lyric. …
You Got the Gig, Kid…Dispatch from Nantucket Film Festival Read More »
Two new songs up at the web site for the charity, Target Cancer, RightTrackTunes.org. You might remember the Christmas tunes we did for the same organization. One is a Van Morrison cover, the other is a Staples Singers cover. Many of you who used to come to the Toad and Lizard Lounge residencies of yore …
From my latest post for Boston Magazine dot com: Since today is June 15, 2011, known in Boston as Stanley Cup Game 7, I have a confession to make: watching hockey makes my eyes glaze over. I know this is ridiculous coming from a baseball fan who can spend four hours watching (and with intense …
I always loved when our friends in the band Fuzzy pulled out Neil Young’s “Losing End” in their sets. What a great old song, and really cool when sung by Hilken Mancini and Chris Toppin — two women’s voices in place of Neil’s and Danny Whitten’s. You’ll have to forgive my version. It slips a …
Cover of the Week 45 & 46 Losing End/Cortez the Killer Read More »
I think I forgot to post this here, though I had posted it over at Facebook. It is a piece I wrote and narrated about my childhood friend Chris Campion for the “Here and Now” program produced by my poker buddy, Chris Ballman, for Boston’s NPR news station, WBUR. Campy wrote a highly engaging memoir …
Labor Day weekend. Down at my parent’s place on Cape Cod. We’re in the garage about to leave for the last hurrah of the summer at Old Silver Beach with my mom and the kids. My father is seeing us off from the garage. I look down and see a big box for a 3M …