Archive for the 'The Music' Category


The Magic Power

The day after Brad Delp died, I found myself in a hotel ballroom for the induction of Triumph into the Canadian Music Industry Hall Of Fame. I first heard "More Than A Feeling" on either KMET or KLOS.  They were right next to each other on the FM dial, at 94.7 and 95.5 respectively.  The […]

Some Tracks

"On The Airwaves"The Shazam Sometimes something just sounds right. I was turning from Pico to the freeway and this song came over Little Steven’s Underground Garage channel on Sirius.  I didn’t want to like it, I wanted it to be shitty, because if it was good, then I’d have to spend more time listening to […]

Arriving Somewhere

I heard Badger on Deep Tracks last night. Now on their second album, they were fronted by Jackie Lomax.  I never got Lomax in his Apple days, but this album resonated.  But the group had already broken up by time the record came out. But I didn’t hear anything from "White Lady" last night, rather […]

You Oughta Know

I think I’m gonna stop answering my e-mail.  I just don’t want to get into arguments anymore.  Between those who still believe and myself. There was a time when I lived to read "Rolling Stone", to be on the pulse.  Music was the most happening art form.  It not only soothed your soul, it informed […]