Archive for 2011/05


Eric Carmen On The Outsiders

Bob, When I was in high school in Lyndhurst, Ohio, there was a place called the Chagrin Armory, where the up and coming bands would play. It was basically just a huge, empty concrete warehouse, with terrible acoustics, but it could probably hold 1500 people. I heard The Outsiders were going to be playing there, […]

Re-Time Won’t Let Me

Hey, Bob: That’s ME drumming in the video of TIME WON’T LET ME!!  Some things are better left in he past, and when this video started showing up a few years ago, I was pretty embarassed.  I was 18 years old, the manager’s wife had cut my hair and given me the clothes to wear, […]

Time Won’t Let Me

Tom King died! Tom WHO? So I’m sitting on the plane reading the obituaries.  My father used to be addicted, would wake up my mom on a regular basis saying GUESS WHO DIED! She hated it, and I didn’t get it, but now I’m addicted.  And I don’t know why.  Maybe it’s the compartmentalization of […]

Connecticut

I’m here to visit my mother in rehab.  She took too many drugs and… No, she broke her hip and then her femur and she wanted me to come and here I am. I was also going to go to the Rockefeller Estate at Pocantico for a big confab about voter registration but the money […]