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 –
A Buddhist monk in Thailand
Back in the 1900's, Madame and I went trekking in the Golden Triangle (I'm not making this up). She became a bit obsessed with the many Buddhist monks who we [...]
Joe Franklin
"Mitch, did you really know Joe Franklin?" You bet I did, little Timmy! Although, to be honest, that wasn't really such a distinguishing characteristic. If [...]
Carlo Scibelli
Carlo Scibelli was one of the star-gazing guttersnipes with whom I cavorted in Central Park, all of us smoking big cigars and telling bigger lies. [...]
Jack Bruce
I first met Jack Bruce in Stuttgart, Germany in 1995. It was a televised festival of the music of Jimi Hendrix and I was there as Vernon Reid’s tour [...]
Robin Williams
A Robin Williams story from backstage at Carnegie Hall. Orchestra Room 3 is packed with rock stars and their usual retinue but all eyes and ears are on one [...]
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger walked into our little office in the Brill Building one morning with his banjo strapped across his back. If I remember correctly he had called [...]
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Dark day. Just got word that Ronald Shannon Jackson passed this morning. I was 19 when I first heard his music. No one had ever told me that music could do [...]
Rodney King
Rodney King was introduced to me as "Glen," the name by which his family had always known him. It was in Altadena in 1994, a couple of years after That Whole [...]