THE MUSIC GAME
David Crosby once said something along this line ... We don't get paid for getting up on stage and playing music, we get paid for all of the crap you need to battle through to get here. The list of [...]
YOUTH by FOLK IN THE ROAD
YOUTH - A song about the fumbling, bumbling, awkward days of youth. I miss performing, writing, rehearsing and the general atmosphere around the band I left in Melbourne FOLK IN THE ROAD. Here is a song we collaborated on [...]
SEEDS OF CHANGE
SEEDS OF CHANGE – Not much to say about this song the message is abundantly clear. There are numerous difficult and disturbing issues effecting areas of not only our individual communities but of human society as a whole, [...]
DIME STORE NOVELS
DIME STORE NOVELS Here in the new century what was once the revered and respected Fourth Estate is now basically publishers of Dime Store Novels. Every story, every photo, every headline is purposely bias leaning right or [...]
Three Minutes & Forty Seconds or 3:40
Three minutes and forty seconds or 3:40, the commercially recommended maximum song length. Why? Back in the heyday of music in the 60’s and 70’s the musicians controlled the industry because they 1. Refused to give up their publishing [...]
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 [...]
The Last Of The Old Folk Rockers
The Last Of The Old Folk Rockers ... by Bob Crain Here is a song from the Bob Crain LIVE performance called The Last Of The Old Folk Rockers ... and I hope this will not be the [...]
It’s a Lotto World
I wrote the song It's Lotto World back in about 2010 ... nothing much has changed probably more people now with their lives completely hinged on the outcome of a bunch of numbers bouncing around in a big [...]
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 [...]