Quantifying Qualities

There’s Gotta Be More To It Than That Nope. Not really. I never claimed that this issue was deep and insightful. It was just something I would think about late at night or during the wonderful hour or so after a long run. The perennial mystery of awareness and who or what it is that’s being aware.  We…

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Quality and Quantity

Quality and Quantity        When I was twelve years old a television show called Star Trek debuted on NBC and ran for three seasons producing seventy one episodes. Most of us are familiar with it. It spawned movies and two more television series. The small budget offered to the producers prohibited having a…

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MY BOOK by MIKEY

MY BOOK   by   MIKEY Hi everyone.  I’ve been home for a week now and I have been amazingly unproductive. Family, friends and associates that I deal with on a regular basis know the pattern. For those who don’t, I go through a process that others who are in stressful occupations call decompression. I…

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OTC Anaheim

I Know I Can, I Know I Can         To people from southern California the acronym OC means Orange County. That’s where I am as I write this. To be more exact, Anaheim. To the rest of the English speaking world OC means Obsessive Compulsive.   Except for a relatively brief love affair…

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San Diego

For years we’ve played at an excellent open-air venue called Humphreys when we were in the San Diego area. It was up by the airport, right on the water with the marinas. The theatre pictured here, the Balboa, is our first time downtown in 30 years.Our show here Wednesday, “was the cleanest so far this…

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A Trip Around LA

Hi everybody. Close to the DL Santa Clarita, Beverly Hills and Pasadena. Excellent shows for the most part. At least from where I’m sitting. To be fair, if they were to sell my seat they would have to offer a discount. “Obstructed” would be an accurate description. The sight lines aren’t great. I’m angled towards…

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CNZ Santa Rosa

Hi Everyone. After being off since November 24 we just did three exceptional shows here in central California. This latest one at the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa really had some extra magic.  Gord was at ease with the audience and he created an interesting rapport with them.   Musically it kicked ass.

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CNZ Tour San Jose

Great show last night at the City National Civic. Perhaps just to flaunt our confidence the second tune we did, “Cotton Jenny”, is something we seldom play and the third was “Too Many Clues” a difficult tune at the best of times requiring fairly intense focus. We were having a little fun and so was the appreciative…

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CNZ Tour 2019 Sacramento

The Crest Theatre      Sacramento Monday March 4 2019 Amazing. Ya gotta love it. Three and a half months since our last show and with no rehearsal, we played a pretty damned good concert. Not flawless……….one or two speed bumps and “oh shit” moments, but none the less, it sounded like we never took a break.…

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Stage Fright

Hey Everyone! The 2019 tour starts today We arrived in Sacramento yesterday. Our first show is tonight at the Crest Theatre. If it’s not a train wreck there will be a review. I’m going to try to keep a mental list of how many times during a song I’ll be thinking “what chord is next?” Or “oh…

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