PLAYING THE CATALOG
Locked down in the fair city of Melbourne, Australia … so many things you can’t do. Can’t go out in to the fields and forests and there is just so much TV the mind can take. Can’t go to [...]
Just A Thought
I wonder if the current virus crisis we are facing in the world today is not just Mother Nature giving her "guests" a slap upside the head for not respecting her, our environment and our fellow "guests". We seem [...]
Mucho Music stuff happening
There is a whole lot of music stuff happening at the moment or in the planning stage SONGWRITING - I have recently written or finished several new songs with titles including A Lot More Rock n Roll, It's Been [...]
THE HIPPIES WERE RIGHT … a true story
It has been nearly a decade since I released my first solo CD THE HIPPIES WERE RIGHT ... damn. There are no more original CD copies left in the closet (but if you want one I can make you [...]
Retirement Homes For Nuclear Weapons
Retirement Homes For Nuclear Weapons With the Super Powers and wannabees around the world once again using the specter of Mutually Assured Destruction via nuclear weapons as a methodology to keep us all "under control" and our heads in [...]
THE MUSIC LED THE WAY … YES IT DID
All songwriters and musicians have influences it might be Beethoven or Bach or it might be Stills and Mitchell … but we are all influenced by the music that came before us, that we listened to, that has left [...]
Just About A Year Ago – Pacific Nature
Around this time last year I was in California playing some gigs and my set at The Folk Barn was recorded and eventually became Bob Crain LIVE ... a digital download exclusively available from my website https://www.bobcrain.com.au/product/bob-crain-live/. Nine songs [...]
Songwriters, Songs & Stories
Songwriters Session, Songwriters Circle, Songwriters in the Round, Writers Rap ... they go by various labels but the concept is the same, a multi songwriter line up together on stage sharing their songs and the stories behind those [...]
If You Know Aloha
There is really not enough room on the World Wide Web for me to write everything I could or would want to say about Hawaii ... I have tried to say it best in this song If You [...]
FM Radio … the times the music
FM Radio ... the Times the Music Below is an excerpt from the book – THE HAIGHT –ASHBURY A HISTORY by Charles Perry – Charles Perry is a long time writer and correspondent who began writing for Rolling [...]