Jul 2, 2025
Hey Dude, the amazing Reverand Rick retired at the top of his game to become an artist, while the jury is still out for me.
QUOTE: "Just do your thing. Come as you are."
MUSICIANS: Reverend Rick, Paramahansa Yogananda, John Fogerty
VENUES: Studio City, Unitarian Universalist Church of Studio City, Claremont, Self...
Jun 21, 2025
Hey Dude, my recent reconnection to music makes me travel back in time to 2004, where I was living in a basement apartment in "Eagle Rock" and working on a one person show called "Broken Hearts and Sad Country Songs."
QUOTE: "Whatever!"
MUSICIANS: Stan Hillas, Kittens For Christian, Bruce Springsteen, Marilyn Monroe,...
May 27, 2025
Hey Dude, an innocent Sunday drive to the Hollywood Bowl box office with my dad, turns into a mudslide of deep hometown memories.
QUOTE: "If you don't drive through your hometown, are you really in your hometown?"
LULLABY: "Hooray for Hollywood" (Whitling/Mercer)
MUSICIANS/CAST: John Fogerty, Joan Anderson,...
May 19, 2025
Hey Dude, I took my dad to see Willie Nelson's Outlaw Music Festival at The Hollywood Bowl and it somehow magically restored my faith in my own home town.
QUOTE: "I would call it a borderline spiritual experience..."
LULLABY: "California Sober" by Billy Strings
MUSICIANS/CAST: Willie Nelson, P-22 (mountain lion),...
May 6, 2025
Hey Dude, I finally watched La La Land and it really struck me to the core, especially the scenes at my beloved Smoke House and the wacky one person show stuff.
QUOTE: "My recording situation isn't perfect..."
CAST: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, Ming Ming (cameo)
LOCATIONS: Oregon, 105 Freeway, The Dresden Room, The...
