Honker
'Twas 1987 when I read that the first Frehley's Comet album was finally coming out. I pert near pooped my pants. My numero uno guitar hero Ace Frehley's first solo album in almost 10 years! [...]
Otto Lipton Built a Robot
Chuckie and Archie in HIGH SCHOOL USA As far as I'm concerned there's nothing like some good old fashioned wacky 1980s movie robot comedy. One fateful night in 1984 I flipped on HBO [...]
Flea Market With Alice and Claude
1.26.2015 Sometimes I can't get the globs of music out of my head fast enough. I worry that if I don't, they'll disappear, and a lot of them have. I've been averaging one musical rendering [...]
Escape From The Baby Blue Datsun
When I was in 6th grade my buddy Troy and I were riding our bikes around Cottage Grove. Right here as a matter of fact: We were riding along the center island - obviously 2 [...]
Just Take It Apart
The year: 1981. The specific day: beats the hell out of me. It was cold out, that much I remember. This was the day that I was going to solve the Rubik's Cube. A few [...]
Disco Dance Party In Grandpa’s Den
Sometimes I wish that I had a photographic memory so I could revisit moments from my childhood in much greater detail. Moments such as: Trips to visit the grandparents Buying very pivotal albums from my [...]
The Pool Room
Here's the fifth glob of sound extracted from my melon with the Fishman TriplePlay MIDI pickup which is a tribute to various goings-on in the pool room of the Mendota Heights apartment building that my [...]