Rocks Off: 50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones
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Newsletter Sign-Up Form
I just added an email newsletter sign-up form on the left side of the blog page. I tend to not send out many newsletters, preferring to update via Facebook and Twitter. But every once in a while I will send out some bigger announcements on email. Since I just changed services, I figured it would …
Pledge Music Page Live!
Stephen Dowling photo OK! I made the Pledge Music page live this morning. It has already hit 55% of the target by this evening. Please, no more Paypal. Please use the Pledge Page. For those of you who have not yet pledged, contributed, and/or are not subscribed to my email list, here is the email …
Smells Like Teen Spirit. Again.
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” came on my daughter’s indie channel on Pandora this evening and, as she was just going to hit the button for the next track, I tried to explain the significance of the song, how it changed so much in so little time. I was left saying that is was more or …
Update on Project
We are heading into the final stretch. One more song to record, probably in February. Then mastering and figuring out what sort of packaging I will be doing. I am thinking of titling the record Walt Whitman Mall. Right now, my old bud, Tom Polce is mixing a few songs and playing drums on a …
Grown-Ups
I am 46. Despite most evidence to the contrary, a prolonged adolescence in a rock band, and an overall weakness to let go of my youth (I prefer to think of it as being young at heart), I have to finally admit I am a grown-up. We, the grown-ups must accept responsibility for the …
Best Route (click title for full post)
I had intended one more song. But this is not it. So there will be one more after this, if I can ever make into the studio to finish off what a friend of mine affectionately (I hope) calls a “rock opera.” It is certainly not that. I know it is pretentious enough to …
Update on Project
Thanks to all of you who have been checking in, especially to those of you who have contributed to the project. I have been planning on recording one more song in the studio with some friends, but have had the deadline for the Rolling Stones book hanging over my head. Additionally, I am working …
New Song: Funeral of the Legs
I’d like this to be be one of my own, “Murder in the Red Barn” (it does start off much like Waits’ “Shore Leave”), or my own Murder Ballads, or perhaps even my own “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.” More likely than not, though, it will probably just turn out to be my …
New Song: Rounding Third
News of Clear Channel buying the great WFNX, one of the last independent commercial stations with a point of view in the New England, hit me harder than I would have anticipated. Things have been going down this road for more than a decade. And since Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, consolidation of …