My treadmill time is actually a guilty pleasure – I record every music concert, documentary, and interview show on TV and watch them while racking up the miles, sans commercials. I really enjoy learning the history of famous musicians, and the surprising backstories. AXIS TV recently featured a long documentary about the life and musical […]
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I Miss Tom Petty Already
Tom Petty was the guy all of us young, guitar wanna-me musicians admired. A rebel. A writer. A guy who did it his way, and his way was magical and irresistible. Genuine. Straight. Unfiltered. Has there ever been a bad Tom Petty song? He never mailed it in. And that goes not only for the […]
Can You Write A Song in Ten Minutes?
A guitarist friend, Kevin Scruggs, pointed me to a Facebook video featuring Ben Folds at the Kennedy Performing Center for the Arts. Folds was asked to write a song in ten minutes, from scratch, given the following tools: one line selected from that evening’s printed program, the key of A minor, and the National Symphony […]