Category: Music
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Improving on a Beethoven Masterpiece–I Think
I have a love for Beethoven’s music. More so than Mozart, J.S. Bach, or even, going back to my college days, when I was a rabid fan of The Clash and artists like Bruce Springsteen. I think Beethoven’s passion came through so clearly in his symphonies, piano concertos, piano sonatas,…
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My Short Love Affair with Popular Music. A Remix
Of the nearly 380 posts I have published on this and my previous blog, I have reposted only a few (including The Triple, which I have posted three times). If I had the time, I would repost all of them now that better grammar-check tools are available. You, dear reader,…
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Bob Dylan and Catfish Hunter
In my 65-year life, two of the most important things to me have been rock music and baseball. Drilling down, one of my all-time favorite rockers was Bob Dylan, and my favorite baseball team is the Oakland Athletics. And I have a prominent place in my heart for the early…
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The Little (Fickle) Drummer Boy
When I was a kid, I used to listen to the teenager who lived on the corner playing his drums. To my adolescent ears, Ray Hotchkiss sounded accomplished, but he probably wasn’t the next Charlie Watts–just a teenager good enough to create and maintain a rhythm. After hearing Ray a…
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George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” turned 51 recently
This is an innovative music video written and directed by Lance Bangs (director of many music videos as well as the Jackass television shows) and produced by Dhani Harrison (George’s son), David Zonshine (Dhani’s manager and a record executive). The video features appearances by: Mark Hamill, Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer,…
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My Short Love Affair with Music
1975, Rio Americano High School’s AV Room: Born to Run It was late in the fall of my junior year in high school. I must have been roaming the halls during a period where I had dropped out of a course. The dropped class was most likely Ceramics where I…
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