Archive for the 'Live Shows' Category


The Whole Amchitka Album

Consider this a public service announcement. I broke from this screen to watch the final "Curb Your Enthusiasm".  Talk about being nostalgic… The nineties were a lost decade for me.  My ex moved out in ’89, just when "Seinfeld" began.  I was a comedy nut, I’d seen all the stand-ups on late night TV, even […]

Amchitka-The 1970 Concert That Launched Greenpeace

Next month Taylor Swift will be twenty.  She’s already had her heart broken, but she’s not quite aware how complicated and confusing life truly is, how you can seemingly be on top of the world and commit suicide, like Freddie Prinze, how you can be almost broke, but be beamingly happy. But Taylor does know […]

Riding On A Railroad

THE GRAND CANYON We were only on the South Rim for three hours.  Deploying at the Bright Angel Lodge. I hadn’t been there since 1966.  Needless to say, the Grand Canyon hadn’t changed.  It’s vast!  Far larger than you can imagine, almost too big to comprehend.  A huge hole with giant mountains resembling tits cropping […]

KISS Tickets-Price…Zero!

Well, there’s a bunch of service charges.  Can’t beat the Ticketmaster fees, the promoter’s got to get some of its money back. You know Gene ain’t parting with any of his! I’ll give the man credit.  Gene was 2010 back in the nineties.  With the coffin, the convention, he was all about superserving the niche.  […]