The last couple of years have been really big on celebrity deaths. What’s been odd for me is that I realized I don’t really understand what emotional profile an artist has for me until he or she is gone. This … Continue reading Gratitude while they’re still alive…
2015-2016 is turning out like 1970-71, when Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison all died within a few months of each other. I can’t imagine anyone else playing Snape, or the caterpillar in Alice, or Marvin the paranoid android. … Continue reading R.I.P. Alan Rickman
He owned every part that he played. Continue reading Sleep Well, Christopher Lee
Great blues and rock guitarist Johnny Winter passed away at age 70. I’ve always loved his cover of “Highway 61 Revisited” And I love how much he uses the lower registers in his lead guitar here: His most famous song … Continue reading RIP: Johnny Winter
Fantastic lineup for a tribute concert to Linda Ronstadt: Continue reading Song du jour: Stevie Nicks, etc., “When Will I Be Loved”
