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 …
Jay Bass fishing (we threw them all back) I got to go out on a boat a few weeks ago. One of my best friends — going back to high school days — Rich Bonanno, is a professor and during his sabbatical this year bought a small Boston Whaler and big engine. Some of you, …
Cover of the Week 43 I’m Not Like Everybody Else Read More »
August 2009 I’m heading out for a week of vacation. Does that mean I shortchange you, the 15 people who check this blog regularly, by taking a week off of the COtW project as well? No! I’m the kind of guy who doubles down instead, projecting ahead a week where I won’t be able to …
Cover of the Week 41 and (non) Cover of the Week 42 The Lethal Temptress Read More »
Van the Man just did one of his Astral Weeks shows here in Boston last week. Somehow, after seeing him probably five times, I just didn’t make a huge effort to get tickets. There was a lot going on. I went to go see Paul McCartney at Fenway, e.g. That was a first. And while …