You get me closer to God I saw them bust a bootlegger. One of the problems with feeling safe is that you’re not.  Unless, maybe, you never leave  your house. After swerving around a black Nissan with steam pouring from under its hood, I ascended the freeway ramp leading to Randy’s Donuts, Manchester Boulevard and […]

What a magical evening. I come back from buying a bottle of water and who’s sitting in my seat?  VAN DYKE PARKS! Does Felice know Van Dyke? No, but he then tells a story of eating dinner with Mo Ostin and her dad at Chasen’s…  Van Dyke’s revealing history, his tenure at Carnegie Tech, working […]

I’ve been spending all day downloading live shows. The Linda Ronstadt radio show from the Record Plant back in ’73 wasn’t as audio-exquisite as one might expect, it being broadcasted and everything. Karla Bonoff’s show from Nashville back in ’78 was revelatory.  How do they know the essence of life so young?  I had to […]

I spent my seventeenth birthday stoned watching "Woodstock" in Boston. That wasn’t the plan.  I wasn’t supposed to be in Boston at all.  I was supposed to be spending the day with her.  But she never called. Days had gone by.  She had promised.  I’d told my mother that I couldn’t drive her brother and […]