It’s an interesting process: You write songs. “Bake” them in live performance for a year or so. Then spend six months in the studio recording them. (You also spend many wonderfully sleepless nights debating track sequences and deciding which songs […]
Songs and Stories #118: “Starlite…” Release Party Preview
Click here to listen to episode #119 (time = 29:32) Yesterday we played on KPIG radio’s Sunday morning show “Please Stand By” to promote this Saturday’s “Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night” CD-release party at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds. It’s always […]
Local Press for “Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night”
Gotta love a hometown newspaper. And ya gotta love a good tip from wise friends. Before the recording started on this “Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night” record, Sharon Allen told me she took care of the artwork before recording her solo […]
The First Drive-In Movie Theater: June 6th 1933
My friend Dave is retired from the coast guard. He now lives in Hawaii with his lovely wife, Catherine, and studies environmental law. He’s pretty hip. When he told me he’s from New Jersey, I listed a bunch of really […]
Fun with Drive-In Nostalgia and Sound Effects
Sounds effects. Do you add them to your record or not? This is a good dilemma. I think when you’re at the point where you’re slightly agonizing over whether or not to add a few sound effects to songs on […]
The Starlite Drive-In Photographs
Sometimes a seemingly innocent research quest can turn into a brief obsession. Before starting the new record, “Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night,” I decided that photographs of our now-defunct little drive-in theater (the subject of the title song), would be great […]
Picture the Starlite Drive-In (If I HAD a Picture)
This is the type of post that would normally be accompanied by a great photograph. But I don’t have one. And that’s kind of the point. The new CD – officially in the planning stages – has our old Starlite […]