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(the oldest and most expensive, from 1972, a Gibson walnut 6 string-electric; I used it in my public band days from 1973-2002) (a 12 string Yamaha acoustic–duplicates the Stones’ “As Tears Go By” and “Angie” sound) (a 2002 6 string Tofino from … Continue reading →

but it produced some memorable sunrises.

shows off his sticker art piece for Daddy and builds a Tinker Toy café for his two animal pals.

The dead fly on the bathroom floor by the vent. Where had he come from? And I remembered, this morning, turning on the heat for the first time this fall. Performing an inadvertent exit from the bowels of house inferno? … Continue reading →

And so I awoke at long last in a Bill Evans’ world. Summer had come and gone: smoke, wind, crows and magpies. It was a more human space with leaves on the move. Overnight it had rained and I had … Continue reading →

Top half played on acoustic 6; bottom half on acoustic 12. “Islands in the Mind” is an original instrumental. I made one substitution, pulling  “Groovy Kind of Love”. Rest went over well. My first public gig since the Strathcona grad … Continue reading →

(Castile, Spain) In the musty cloister corridors of Santo Domingo are the voices of the ages unexpectedly. Men without women. Men without guns. Men assured of purpose sublime. Re-gardless of time, untouched by war, chaos and the mad pursuit of … Continue reading →

(photo by my daughter, reminiscent of van Gogh’s “Starry Night over the Rhine”, 1888)

(photos by my daughter on her trip of a lifetime to see the total eclipse with her companion; I have been ‘blamed’ for showing them a leaflet for a lecture by their old prof, Professor Hube, which I picked up at the … Continue reading →