MUSIC: IMPROVISATIONAL HEALING–On the Road with The Flower Kings in the...
Before I wrote about food I wrote about music. For many years I was a columnist, feature writer and reviewer for Progression Magazine: The Journal of Progressive Music. Over the weeks surrounding...
View ArticleMUSIC — Prog and Punk: Death Foes or Kissing Cousins?
Whispering the word “Punk” in a Prog crowd may not be quite the same thing as shouting fire in a crowded theater, but it is certainly close. Perhaps a better analogy would be letting a really big fart...
View ArticleMUSIC: A Tangent Across the North Sea
I The Birth of The Tangent, Part 1: A Gathering of the Tribe. It was a crossroads. In fact, it was the crossing of many roads all at once and all in one place. It was a Rome to which roads led but also...
View ArticleMUSIC: Umphrey’s McGee — Dropping Anchor in a New Harbor
I WHAT IS AN UMPHREY’S McGEE? Umphrey’s McGee is what would happen if King Crimson, Steely Dan and John Coltrane met at a street corner for the express purpose of paying tribute to the Grateful Dead…or...
View ArticlePROGRESSION MAGAZINE: Flying Colors – Group or Supergroup
Prog may not have given birth to the rock “supergroup” but there can be little doubt that the notion of constructing a band out of individual members, each of whom has already achieved rock and roll...
View ArticleMUSIC: LORD AND VASSAL, SERF AND PUNTER (A Son of the Empire Gives it Another...
Feudalism: A medieval social system, particularly prevalent in Western Europe, under which lords, vassals (minor nobility and knights) and serfs (commoners), owed each other reciprocal defense and...
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