Just finished listening to “Fire and Rain” by James Taylor……  My mind wandered a bit and I started comparing the song’s title to our weather this Summer in Oklahoma……  The “Fire” part we have exceeded on all levels – Temp wise we tied the all-time record of days over 100 (50 Days) Saturday, and since we still [...]

That’s a lot of strings…..  How would you like to be this guy’s roadie and have to change the strings on this monster guitar and keep the darn thing in tune……  I sometimes have problems keeping my 6-string guitar in tune, especially when I’m pushing and bending the strings a lot…… A friend of mine [...]

I made an earlier Post on going to Chicago and seeing Harmonica Hinds…… Now, H.H., he plays the Chicago style of Blues straight-up and Blues to the Bone…… I bought one of his CD’s while I was there, “Finally” and ordered another one later, “Anything If I Could”….. Both were great BLUES Albums….. You know [...]

During the period of time that Mr. Jek was growing up, we would be constantly working on building projects – Models, electronic kits, any and everything, so, we needed a semi-permanet work space….. I had an old Samsonite card table and we named it ” The Group “W” Bench”….. Why?….. If you can’t figure it [...]

It’s amazing the advances that have occurred in the Medical field….. Our drummer has been diagnosed with two benign brain tumors….. They now have a procedure called Gamma Knife Surgery…. They’ve developed this machine that looks similar to an MRI unit….. The patient remains awake through the whole thing….. First the upper part of the [...]

Back in the early ’70′s, we had a K-Mart located on Lincoln Blvd. just North of the State Capitol…..  In the music section, in what we called at the time, “The Cut-Out Bin”, I found three (3) Jimi Hendrix “bootleg” albums.….  They all had the same cover – the body of a White Stratocaster and [...]

Anon wanted me to Post this……. Click Some Guitar Players and take a look….. It’s pretty amazing to watch….. The Guitars are bigger than the Players!….. I guess they don’t make kid-sized guitars in North Korea….. It makes an old guitar player want to retire immediately, but, then again, if you’re that good, at that [...]

We all know the cover to the Beatles Abbey Road Album An interesting little bit of useless knowledge has come to my attention. The photo was taken by photographer Iain Macmillan during a photo shoot on Friday 8 August 1969 the famous photo was taken at approximately 1100am GMT (London Time) Not 24 hours later [...]

Remember my Post on the Hendrix Strings back on 28JAN11 – $27.27?….. Well, those numbers are back again!…. Our band, Terraplane, have been working on a limited edition single with one original, one cover song, and a bonus track from 1976…… As you can imagine, these were all recorded at very different times….. After all [...]

….Or downright weird??…. You decide….. I have finally got around to shredding all those papers, invoices, mailing labels, etc., that you don’t really want to throw in your trash because, these days, you can’t even trust your trash when it comes to identity theft…. I ran across an invoice from Mills Music in Bothell, WA [...]

I just ran across the August 30, 2000 copy of the “Oklahoma Gazette” which had a large article on Norman (OK), 1970 with some photos….. One of them was the Jimi Hendrix poster for his May 8 concerts….. It was one of his last concerts before his death in September of ’70…… I didn’t make [...]

Gerry Rafferty, writer of “Baker Street.” Mick Karn was less well known but one of my very favorite bassists. A true original.

We’re about to have our 3rd Annual Chili Cook-off at work and I was working on this year’s poster for our chili when I ran into a previous year’s poster. With all the Beatles/iTunes love, it seems appropriate. Hope you enjoy and get hungry!

….As I’m a little late in the day Posting this, listen to some Hendrix tonight, or tomorrow for sure……  They’re having a Hendrix Birthday Party at the Seattle Hard Rock Cafe tonight, and another one at another big club tomorrow night…..  Didn’t make it to the Hard Rock, but, am considering making the one tomorrow [...]

Got to see Taj Mahal at “The Jazz Alley” Friday the 19th….. I went in good company – Jek and TTop from MRC and members from MC6 – Eight of us in all, so, there was going to be fun even if Taj didn’t show up!  Taj did show up, but, I guess if it [...]