Saturday, May 31, 2008


a brief note of explanation...
left hand and wrist
in a brace when not on ice
or some other sort of treatment
years of bass wrangling
have taken their toll on tendons
and other related parts
and for the first time
have had to cancel gigs and sessions...

...will be away from the keyboard
for a day or three...

updates as they become available...
...pictured are my hand and my
state of mind...

Friday, May 30, 2008

...and thus the waiting ends.

Monday, May 26, 2008

more tales from the road...

my two man band, smoot mahooty, just finished a five night stint at the Bright Angel Lodge, located on the south rim of the Grand Canyon...it's a cushy gig as gigs go...one load in, one load out, hiking and digging mother and father nature during the day, playing music for those fortunate enough to have the shekels to travel in these trying times...but that's another story for another time...

...friday night started out as most evenings at the Bright Angel Lounge, the bar full of globetrotters fresh off the bus, dusty hikers doing what i call "the grand canyon shuffle", downing pints and other cocktails to ease the pain, wide-eyed families from Wisconsin and other midwestern locales and an assortment of folks from the four corners of this little cat's eye spinning through the cosmos...a large portion of this assembled humanity clutch and periodically peer at the beeper devices that will call them to their evening repast...

...so, basically, we're playing pre-dinner music, just easing into the night and one of us usually jokes that we'll break out the lasers and fog machines a bit later in the show...but this friday started with a bit of a twist...

...seated directly in front of the stage was an elderly couple, i would guess ages to be somewhere between 80 and 180...it's hard to tell when we humans get that old...anyway...for our first number we selected a Lyle Lovett tune, "She's No Lady (She's My Wife) a very humorous, tongue-in-cheek view of relationships and marriage and such...(perhaps i can implore Pixie to imbed the audio of that song, as i am an idjit about such things)... getting back to the point, these two dear old souls glared at us for the entirety of the song, and when it was finished, they wobbled to their feet, tottered over directly in front of us, and this wee, tiny grandmotherly thing shook a boney finger at me and exclaimed how much that song sucks!...imagine my surprise...after which her knightly paramour added, "We've been married 60 years, and she's a lady and she's my wife!"

...sheeeeesh....go have some oatmeal and take a nap...maybe you'll wake up with a sense of humor...

At your request, my beloved Punkin!!!! (XOXO Pixie)

home...for now


...back from another couple weeks on the road
making music
and friends
along the way
witnessed summer thundersnow in
northern arizona
vivid canyon colors
obscured by swirling white clouds
put a finger on the pulse
of people from all over the planet
and can feel a change coming
just over the horizon
just beyond those
swirling white clouds
people (most of them, anyway)
are weary of business as usual
and wary of the powers that be
ready for the next human evolutionary step
a spiritual one
not a change brought on
by some imaginary cloud being
hairy thunderer or
cosmic muffin
a change made by
us
within every heart
every mind

evolution is revolution
everything sacred moves in a circle...

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

this space for rent

i'm gone...

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Happy Birthday Soul Pumpkin



FROM DIANE



FROM JANET



FROM CHRIS (BECAUSE BASSISTS CANT CARRY A TUNA)



FROM WOOD SONG (BECAUSE IT MAKES HER THINK OF MUSIC, WHICH MAKES HER THINK OF YOU)



FROM SWEET SUE

And from me, well... I just love you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Happy Mother's Day
Mom
Grammy
Grandma

and all mothers out there.
you are the toughest creatures
in all creation...

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

"Knowledge speaks, but Wisdom listens."

Jimi Hendrix

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

distant star
of the long night
stays to light my days
plays traces of melodies
from songs yet to be
says words for my hand to write
lost in words since morning light
crossed into a world
where the next warning
might be the last
might be free at last
and learn to see inside