It’s my dad’s birthday today.  I’d love to call him and wish him a happy birthday but I can’t.  He’s still in county back east and I have no idea when I’ll talk to him again.  Maybe a year, maybe three if he gets transferred to a state facility.  I’m going to send him some […]

Caress of Steel was pretty awesome.  Once the soundman got it together these guys were crushing. Pat sounded so much like Geddy on the mic, bass and floor synth it was like I was back in Rochester seeing Rush about five years ago.  And this is coming from an upstate New Yorker, a true Rush fan.  Some […]

I’m going to see my pal Pat’s Rush Tribute band tonight in the Valley. Earlier today Pat was stringing up his Ibanez lawsuit era white double neck SG. A rare one with a bass neck and six string guitar neck, not the regular six and twelve combo you find on most double neck SGs. Lawsuit […]

So I’ve had a classical guitar fix for a couple of weeks.  I played a concert model made by Robert Ruck today.  It was very nice.  Maybe I’ve grown up playing steel strings too long to judge classicals by the common rubric.  But for my taste the David Russell Young I played yesterday was hands down my favorite to […]

…not by choice.  I went to KFC and ordered, pulled up to the window and then the server told me his credit card terminal is down.  And I had no cash on me so I called an audible and went to get a twenty piece Chicken McNugget.  You know a healthy, in shape hispanic male […]