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New Weekly Report Coming
Starting the weekend beginning Friday Oct. 21 and each weekend following, I’ll be reporting on whatever seems interesting at the time. It could be current events, philosophy, gossip etc. At times I’ll trash, at times praise, sometimes just observe and report. I think it will all be worthy of comment, so please do.
Read MoreRam’s Head
This is our second time this year at this unusual venue. We do club-style shows from time to time. In fact, BB King’s, just the night before, is a show-bar but a large one like Barrymore’s in Alexandria Virginia or the Canyon Club just north of LA. But the Ram’s Head is more like the places I…
Read MoreBB King’s
Hi everyone. I’m back at the hotel after an excellent show at the Flynn Centre here in Burlington Vermont and preparing this post for tomorrow’s show in New York. I love going to “The City” which, the last time I checked, puts me in the minority in our organization. Not that anyone hates it, just…
Read MoreNEW!!!!
A picture of my new girlfriend. Be very careful how you fill out those internet dating applications ​Welcome A special welcome to all who have recently discovered the site directly or indirectly through our very own “Queen Charlene”. I told Char about the newsletters a month or so after the UK-Ireland tour with every intention…
Read MoreRock Our Worlds
I started with the idea that popular music isn’t static. As a genre it’s continually in flux, influenced by changes in culture, politics, technology, fashion, war, climate etc. Sometimes certain events or songs are “watershed” moments and it would be cool to get some input as to what those moments are or were. Barry Keane…
Read MoreNewsletter 5 We Get Mail
Hi Everyone I just got back to the hotel after our show at the Birmingham Symphony Hall. This venue is spectacular and new. NEW! An anomaly in a place that treasures everything old…………okay, stop it. Not funny.We’re starting to get some feedback from Tuesday’s show at Royal Albert Hall . Here’s an excerpt from a…
Read MoreThe Emerald Isle Newsletter 6
And Finally Hi EveryoneHere it is, Day 16 and I don’t have the UK money system under control yet. The paper money is easy. I’m talking about the coins. I had a handle on the one pound coin but blew my confidence early by mixing some of them up with Euros (they look similar). If…
Read MoreNewsletter 4 Royal Albert Hall
Hi EverybodyIt’s 2:05 am and I have to be on the tour bus at 10:30. I should really just hit the sack but I thought I’d at least get a start on the Royal Albert Hall show. It was a huge success. What more can I say? Right from the opening chord I’m off to…
Read MoreLiverpool UK-Ireland Newsletter 3
May 21 Have Mersey Hi EverybodyAlready I’m getting some feedback and I think it’s great. Please keep it coming. Most of it is support or saying hi or physical threats……..rhetoric, pretty much. But a question was asked that I’ll address before we look at The Liverpool Show.In the Intro, I made one of those “busier…
Read MoreNewsletter2
Show One GlasgowI know this little newsletter isn’t exactly getting off to a rip-roaring start but those first few days were epic in their mind-numbingness. It started at Pearson International by being installed in a pod. I’ve watched enough ’50s sci-fi flicks to know that pods are a bad thing. You go to sleep and…
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