A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
I left home at noon on Wednesday, August 27, to begin a tour that would take me to three solo gigs in Utah, one in southwestern Colorado, and a Rubber Souldiers show in Carson City, and end right back here in Berkeley with a Reptiles reunion in honor of our rhythm guitarist, Al Feldstein, who … Read more
My best friend died this morning. Tina Loney was the “best man” at my wedding. When I got together with Rita, it was Tina’s approval I sweated out, not my parents’. Fortunately, Tina approved. Tina and her partner of 15 years, Eric Rawlins, have been our companions through countless adventures, tribulations and mundane pleasures since … Read more
Today’s SF Chronicle has two photos on the front page, with this caption: House speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., departs in a hydrogen-powered car … after a news conference on gasoline prices in Washington – and then gets out and prepares to climb into a sport utility vehicle powered by gasoline…. Hastert and President Bush have … Read more
There’s a “Two Cents” item on sfgate.com, asking “When did you smoke your first cigarette? Your last?” My response is included.
My wife and I have spent a lot of time on Kaua’i, and we love the place and the people we know there. An earthen dam broke yesterday, causing a flood that has washed out the Kuhio Highway, destroyed several houses, and taken several lives. Here’s a collection of photos from the newspaper The Garden … Read more
We lost Walter this morning. Walter Keeler was one of my “imaginary friends” – not imaginary at all, really, but one of the people I met and stayed in touch with primarily online, in The WELL. We had musical tastes in common, which is always a good basis for friendly dealings, and over the years … Read more