A good concert makes me want to go home and play. A great concert makes me want to go home and write. Like this one. Colin Hay brought his band to Monterey’s Golden State Theater last month. If you just expected […]
Belgium Review: “Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night”
My latest CD, “Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night”, recently passed the year and a half mark. I’m starting to get asked, “When’s your next one?” It’s flattering and exciting, though at the same time, I know how much work that next […]
CD Review: “Starlite…” Reviewed in UK’s “Maverick Country”
A billion years ago, back in the stone ages, we used to read these things called “magazines”. They were printed on paper. You didn’t need a wifi hotspot to read ’em. And you never had to make sure they had […]
The Coolest Queen Covers Ever (Edgar Cruz and Grey Delisle)
I’ve always been a huge fan of Queen. Way back in the stone age of 1980 before stadiums had corporate sponsorship, I saw Queen at The Oakland Colliseum. (No “McAfee”. No “Oracle”. It was just called “The Oakland Arena”.) It’s […]
CD Review: “A Very Slambovian Christmas”
They only get played one month out of the year, so Christmas CDs seem like a boxful of new presents when I unpack them with the rest of the holiday paraphernalia every end-of-November. There are obvious favorites like Bruce Cockburn’s […]
Recommended Reading: Surf.Com
As a lifelong Santa Cruz native who’s paid the bills with a high-tech day job for more years than I care to acknowledge, I couldn’t help but LOVE “Surf.com”, the latest novel from local author Fred Reiss. The story is […]
The Return of Mudcrutch
Tom Petty went back to his roots last night. So did I. I’ve been attending shows at the Civic since 1978, but somehow always missed Petty and the Heartbreakers when they played there. (While chatting in line with a younger […]