Blog
These are my personal writings. You know how it is: sometimes you have something in your head and you just need to put it down (I want to say “on paper” but I will refrain). Many of these are stories that relate to my days on the road with touring musicians or in the studio making TV shows. I hope you enjoy –
Greg Tate
I have been thinking about my friend Greg Tate since he left this plane a little over a year ago. I haven’t posted anything specifically about him but [...]
David Crosby
Who knew that David Crosby was friends with Phil Collins? Unlikely as it may seem if you’re not a dedicated fan of either of them (which, even if I do own [...]
Melvin Van Peebles
The most interesting man in the world? You won’t find him in a beer commercial. Until yesterday, he lived right across the street from me. [...]
Phil Schaap
Phil Schaap's greatest achievement was not his astonishing command of the history of the Jazz idiom or his unrivaled radio programming or his Grammy-winning [...]
A RAM manifestation of Howard Johnson
I want to say this was fall of 1982. I had booked Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition to play at SUNY-Binghamton. The day of the show arrives and the first [...]
Jerry Stiller
In memoriam Jerry Stiller:
Time: July 1988.
Place: backstage at the Delacorte Theater, Central Park, NYC, on line for catering.
Me: "I just have to [...]
Little Richard
Michael of Washington, DC writes in to say, “Waiting for stories about Little Richard…” Well, yeah, I have one or two.
I spent the whole summer of [...]
Hal Willner
The news of Hal Willner’s death shut me down for a couple of days. This was not supposed to happen. Hal Willner was not supposed to die at 64 [...]