It would be too easy to turn this into some kinda “review” about some kinda nothing. But maybe with 2022 hurtling towards 2023 and carrying too much baggage for too long, it was time to confront the demons within and call it as one sees the cards fall. There was the feeling of great excitement at being unshackled and not thinking one has to tiptoe through the tulips, and also admitting the disappointment at one-time relationships coming apart at the seams, perhaps because of

It’s best when you go somewhere to hear some ‘live’ music with no expectations. It helps to not be disappointed because there’s nothing which comparisons can be drawn. It had been a very long day and the mind needed a surrealistic pillow, but the Champagne Bar at the Grand Hyatt would do. While trying to drown out what had been playing in my head all day and taking a break from everything that needed to be done for the new project to set sail, two people- musicians- were goin

It was always about honesty. There was the honesty of the four mop top Beatles singing fab little songs which now sound like big little songs. By listening to those early records, we discovered black artists like The Marvelettes, the Miracles, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and the art of writing commercial pop songs like Carole King and Gerry Goffin- and Lennon-McCartney. They were sharing and we were absorbing. There was the “We’re more popular than Jesus” moment, the trippy B