Kay Hanley and Lori McKenna at Hot Stove Cool Music, January 2008, with me grinning appropriately for a part time man of rock. One of my favorite pictures. Oh yeah, please let me know who took it, so that I may give credit. I am not yet convinced that Twitter is worth the hype. But …
Hey, someone asked me what a “clam” is, as referenced in my last post. Well, I assume more people don’t know the term either. So, a clam is a mistake/bad note. Old music-dude terminology. See: Buddy Rich balling out his band on a bus. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8-uoTD4fMQ] “…while you clam all over this fucking joint…. http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
When Buffalo Tom played this past June, in addition to showcasing some new songs, we wanted to open up a bit and work on some less-often-played numbers from the past. One such song was “Your Stripes,” from Sleepy Eyed. I loved playing and singing it and it was one that many friends remarked on afterward. …
I recently had the honor in my day job as a real estate agent to list a 1950s modernist house that was designed by an architect for his then-young family. It is not every day I get to work with such interesting and lovely people on such a unique and intriguing property. When we close …