Fate is inexorable… and sometimes so very, very cool…
In 1969, I saw Eric Burdon and WAR at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. It was a year before I had started playing harp and I was fourteen. During their awesome …
Tom Petty and Live Aid
In response to Dean Matteson Collins, who happens to be a first-rate songwriter/singer, ex-Navy pilot, and current Delta pilot, who asked what it was like at Live Aid where …
Eurythmics – Podcast! -The Music And Videos of Annie Lennox & Dave Stewart
Eurythmics, Paris 1986
I just had a very enjoyable conversation/interview with Eurythmics fan club leaders Mark and Rex. In the wide ranging interview we covered various subjects including …
Steve Samuels – the badass blues guitarist you’ve never heard of
Steve Samuels influenced the way I approach and appreciate music and how I run a band and conduct myself as a band member. Though we were at odds often I …
Roger and Me – Queen Memories
On a recent flight back from Mexico City I caught “Bohemian Rhapsody” the Queen biopic. It brought back some fond memories.
Full disclosure, in their heyday of the 70s and …
Moscow Nights
About 2 years ago in early 2017, I got a call from Digital Domain, Inc. founder Scott Ross inviting my wife Erica and I to a surprise birthday dinner …
The New Roseanne Show, John “Juke” Logan, and Me
My old pal, the late, great John “Juke” Logan was the harp man on the music for the original Roseanne Show for all those glory years from the late …
Weird Al, Rick Derringer and Jimmy Z in the Land of Scotti Bros.
In late 1983 I got a call from Rick Derringer asking if I could come down to Scotti Brothers Studios in West LA to record some sax for an artist …
Jimmy Z and Rick Springfield Revisited
In 1984 I was called for a session at the old Record Plant on 3rd St. to play harp for Rick Springfield. At the time he was a big …
Fun Times With James Cotton
When I was just starting out playing harp in the very early 70s as a 15-year-old wet behind the ears teenager, my brother Gary and his eclectic record collection …