• Was Bad Leroy Brown really a sissy?

    Was Bad Leroy Brown really a sissy?

    Tapping my hand on the steering wheel to fellow Villanova-ian Jim Croce’s “Bad Leroy Brown”… I couldn’t help but wonder how could he get his but whipped so easy by “Doris’ husband” if he was carrying all those weapons? If I had a “32 gun in my pocket for fun and a razor in my… Read more

  • Flamings Lips Go To Dark Side

    Flamings Lips Go To Dark Side

    Talking music with friends yields good things.  (Thanks Ryan M.) In a deep music chat with two other fine chaps in one of NYC’s finest (at the time) gin mills… I find out out the Flaming Lips have spent serious time playing and recreating Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” with their own sick… Read more

  • Buffett Flaps His Wings at Jones Beach

    Buffett Flaps His Wings at Jones Beach

    It has been 12 yrs since my last Jimmy Buffett show and I was a bit trepidatious about damaging the lovey-dovey feelings I have about my Parrothead memories. In fact, my good friend (a serious Buffet man) warned me not to go. On Aug 22, Shrimper Dan returned. Here is the setlist. After battling through rain… Read more

  • Eddie Vedder + Typewriter

    Eddie Vedder + Typewriter

    I loved reading that Eddie Vedder types all his lyrics out on an old fashioned type writer.  It’s hard to verbalize…but the uniqueness and physicality of imprinting your words on paper has more meaning that keying them on a computer or iPhone.   It’s a tangible transfer.  More real. Kind like a record vs an… Read more

  • The Sounds of (Not So) Silence — Katz’s Deli LES

    The Sounds of (Not So) Silence — Katz’s Deli LES

    Sitting in the famous Katz’s deli on Houston St on the Lower East Side (now being re-branded by the local retailers and economic development group as LES) and watching the 2 dozen men that work the deli counter get ready for a busy Saturday afternoon…I was unexpectedly entertained and taken by their “pre-show” or “pre-game”… Read more

  • Naked Hippie Flies Over Garcia during “Birdsong”

    Naked Hippie Flies Over Garcia during “Birdsong”

    My buddy turns to me and says, “I had this movie on a bootleg VHS tape and always thought some strange big bird was flapping above Garcia’s head…now I know it was a crazed naked man flapping his arms and penis. IMAX Theatre is great.” The Grateful Dead’s 3rd Annual “Meet up at the Movies”… Read more