Duane’s dead. But he’s positively alive in this clip.  As well as long departed Berry and exiled Dickie. Shot before the breakthrough of the live album what’s utterly fascinating here is it’s the Fillmore East!  You’ve got memories in your brain, and that’s all they are, distant links to images past, and suddenly you’re confronted […]

I’m having a hard time adjusting to Los Angeles.  When I left Colorado yesterday, it was dumping.  And there’s nothing like a snowstorm to make you feel fully alive.  The precipitation quiets everything, and in the silence you can almost hear your heart beat, it’s purely primitive, it’s just you and the elements. Whereas SoCal […]

Note: Sometimes you’ve got to leave the best stuff out.  That’s what I learned from Carl Reiner on Costas years ago.  But the quote I excerpted from this program resonates in my head, and even though it doesn’t fit in below, I want to lay it on you now: "When it’s good, it’s irresistible." That’s […]

Hi Bob, Thanks for the kind words about "Foreplay/Long Time." And, if I may, I’d like to offer a couple of addenda: 1. Not many people know it, but "Long Time" is a guitar showcase for Barry Goudreau, the often unmentioned lead guitarist in Boston. All the solos are his. He can coax some amazing […]