VIOLENCE and MEDIA’S TREATMENT BIAS
WHO WILL MARCH FOR SARGUN RAGI ... a sad but true story Audio of Who Will March For Sargun Ragi as recorded live during a radio interview. Recently a friend of mine in Canada (who is of [...]
INDEPENDENCE DAY – IS IT?
As Americans enjoy this 4th of July Independence Day Holiday I wonder if over the 200+ years since gaining independence from the British Crown they haven't traded the single monarch for a gaggle of 500 to 600 "kings and [...]
RECORDING TIME
HEADING IN TO THE STUDIO TO RECORD SOME NEW SONGS AND UPDATE SOME OLDER SONGS Some new song titles THE DAY THEY PAVED THE CARPARK AT POINT PANIC RIGHT OF DENIAL ZIG ZAG TIMES LUNCH AT THE HOTEL MOSKVA A [...]
NEW WORLD NEW LANGUAGE
NEW WORLD NEW LANGUAGE This is actually an "old song" recorded on my HUMANOLOGY 101 CD, recorded at Incubator Studios in Melbourne with Richard Allison on the Hammond Organ. I have been playing it lately mainly because it keeps [...]
NEW SONGS – SONGWRITING
SONG WRITING AND FINISHING MODE Settled in on the New South Wales Mid North Coast and time to get back to the main game ... songwriting. Although having some success with songs in the "music biz" is great it's [...]
FASHIONABLE INDIGNATION ON WOAFM99
It’s always a pleasure when a radio show, blogger, reviewer or other music based outlet picks up one of your songs out of the blue and plays it on the radio or a podcast. So it was great to have [...]
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 [...]
RETIREMENT HOMES FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS
RETIREMENT HOMES FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS A local government council has recently, using the ratepayers time and money, passed a resolution condemning the use, possession and production of nuclear weapons and confirming that "the Council will not do business with [...]
HIGHWAYS
The next contribution to my LOCKDOWN LYRICS SERIES – HIGHWAYS A relatively new song and not yet recorded HIGHWAYS was written on the road. When driving from Melbourne to the country it dawned on me that the highways and [...]
AFGHANISTAN
AFGHANISTAN I could write pages about this subject but I will let the song speak for itself. I wrote this song in 2010, call me a visionary or just a student of history. What is happening now in Afghanistan was [...]