May 2011 I struggle with Steely Dan. When I was a kid on Long Island in the 1970s, suburban New York was awash with the mellow, edgeless sounds of Steely Dan coming down the powerful FM airwaves (“no static at all”). Not that I could articulate it at the time, but they represented a sort-of …
From my latest on BostonMagazine.com: I just got home late Saturday night from the last of the Buffalo Tom touring for 2011. (Because, really, why would a rock band want to play on a Saturday night and come home instead on a Sunday?) It had been an especially intense little run of five West Coast …
Last week, after a middling Wednesday of trying to sell and market real estate with mixed results, instead of throwing in the towel and wrapping myself in a Snuggie to watch the Celtics get eliminated, I did the only thing that made sense at the time: shook myself a small, ice-cold martini. It was just …
This might be the most sublime of all of Jobim’s melodies and therefore one of the most sublime melodies of all-time. When I was just starting to learn guitar, my dad and I went to a little clinic and concert that Charlie gave at the Munro Music store in Huntington, NY in about 1980. He …
Photo by Anders Petersen A little shorter this time: Bill Radio Vol. 2 I have to work on my on-air persona a bit more. http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Some nights I am just spinning tunes for myself and figure it is easy enough to share. Uploading it is another matter altogether. Here is a 99-minute set of tunes, with some commentary. The Late Night with Bill 99 Minute Radio Hour Episode 1 mp3 http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Here are the dates we have so far. Our time on the road will be extremely limited on this record, so if your city is not listed below, please consider meeting us at one of these places: MARCH 5 HOLLAND GRONINGEN VERA CLUB http://www.vera-groningen.nl/ 6 BELGIUM BRUSSELS ABhttp://www.abconcerts.be/nl/concerten/p/detail/buffalo-tom-06-03-2011 7 HOLLAND AMSTERDAM MELKWEG“>http://www.melkweg.nl/artikelpagina.jsp?language=nederlands&batchno;=5&offset;=48&artikelid;=199111&disciplineid;=muziek&agendaitemid;=1991108 GERMANY COLOGNE LUXORhttp://www.luxor-koeln.de/di-08-03-2011-buffalo-tom/ …
“Guilty Girls.” Here with an interview at Spin.com. http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Updated Sept. 14 2017: In an attempt to relate what Grant Hart meant to me, I pulled out these old blog posts. This was from February 2009: When Buffalo Tom first went on a tour, it was 1989 and it was in Europe. Until we got there, we couldn’t fully comprehend that there were people …
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These old Christmas covers of relatively obscure but great songs are a lot of fun. Please consider downloading them for a great cause. After 25 years as a professional musician, I never fail to be impressed by the sprit of community of musicians in general and the Boston music community in particular. A further reminder …