He ain’t Yoda. He’s Baby Yolo, and he’s going to get into some real Dark sh☆t. Katiana Anastasia Tucker made some prescient predictions during our shift slanging that Cabbage, as she is a self-professed Star Wars dork with a deep background in cloning. But I’ll take credit for the Yolo thing. Baby Yoda is gonna …
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The art of my friend Daniel T. Fleming. You can catch him and his art booth at Pike Place. I want this piece. I have a print already that I treasure that he gifted me after we hung with Sly Dunbar at Nectar and he took some photos. He’s a great friend and supporter of the …
2 basketball myths: 1) Players are more athletic now. No they are not. Shawn Kemp, Jordan, Dominique, Pippen…list goes on and they also had to be stronger and more physical to even perform in an area of hand checking. 2) There are better 3 point shooters now. No there are not. Everybody and their Mom …
I just wrote at 2:40 (something) AM this morning a new song called, ‘I Ain’t Got Time To Lose’. Remember that. Learning about Seneca’s philosophy on the shortness of life and the value of time, has lit another fire in me. And this song is about all that. I don’t have much time to lose. …
This crew pulled something off in television that was straight up out of the Golden Age. The Original Jazz Cabbage ‘s second gig was me showing them songs I wrote AFTER our rehearsal the night before, on the set of Band in Seattle ‘s 4th Christmas Special. I showed them the changes and I walk on with them playing …
Things I didn’t know I needed this morning. My friend from college, the MC Kady M. Kane just popped up in my feed as the star of a film heading to film festivals right now. He was always proudly repping his Native American heritage and his experiences coming up in a Reservation. Now he’s in a movie …
Hey there fellow singers and songwriters. I just sent Eva Walker the ‘Slowjam for Christmas’ song I recorded for Band in Seattle‘s first Christmas Special with Caine Coldnote and Stephanie Walbon and friends. She is requesting folks send her Holiday songs for consideration on her KEXP program. I sent mine. You should too. Eva says, “Early request (so there’s time to record)! …
One of my theme songs, since it was recorded. I don’t identify with the drug addiction aspects, of course, but I certainly can relate with the traits that can get one there… and with the consequences. I’ve always been “all in” with everything – work projects, athletics (back in the day), adventures, writing, sex, love, …
This thought hit me today about how a legitimate concert promoter told me last night that The Press is irrelevant. That everything has changed. He’s not completely off base. It’s a tragedy what’s happening. And it’s effecting a few bottom lines. There isn’t as much money in music and the media. That’s a fact. Google …
I admit it. When people talk sh☆t, I use it as motivation. I used it to lose weight. I’ll use it to run tonight and I’ll use it to memorize lyrics tonight. But I also know these said people are idiots and my confidence intimidates each of them. I want you to be confident too. …
Somebody out there has to have a Creed tattoo. Who is it? I remember in college when drunk frat dudes would say who ever the hell played guitar from his soul patch, was a better guitar player than Jimmy Page. ….and I would laugh. And then I laughed some more. I always thought Creed sucked. …
No American candidate since Teddy Roosevelt, when he got shot during a speech on the campaign trail, has taken an otherwise knock out punch like Bernie Sanders. It was just a heart attack. Teddy got shot in the chest by an Italian anarchist, when such a thing was all the rage. Teddy spoke for another …
A few things about this Paul Simon biography have been tripping me out in some wonderful ways. Such as how that moment when millions of boys like me were falling in love Princess Leia, she was making up and breaking up with Paul Simon. She haunts Graceland. She was going to leave him for Dan …
Well we know one thing for certain. America can actually function on autopilot with a complete lunatic trying to crash the plane in a converted child car seat. We all might in fact die; the American Empire might be finished; the environment may punish us for the sins of previous generations and our own inability …
So proud of this record: Mell Dettmer and Clinton Fearon forever. Sly Dunbar and One Pop Recording Studio is a big part of this breakout album by the greatest Roots artist writing songs today. I was on the press list for his recent show and I bought this for $25 with pride. Celebrate this local artist that is beloved around the …
One thing WSU and The Seattle Supersonics taught me was not to get too wrapped up in sports, …unless you are actually IN the game. If you are a player or a coach, and you have some actual influence over the game besides screaming so loud it’s hard to hear audibles or shoot free throws, …
Check these bars. I have been tossing this song in ciphers since College, but I think it’s time to cover this song LIVE with my electric guitar. Bob never played this LIVE to my knowledge. It’s FIRE. It’s a great song that follows the evolution Chuck Berry outlined in ‘Too Much Monkey Business’. “Maggie comes …
I promise you the world would be a better place if more people spent more time playing musical instruments together and on their own. Singing is so good for you. The sad thing is that people have less and less time living in this gig economy, which is another ring of hell because THOSE ARE …
Before the recession, there will be 3 part time jobs that will not cover the rent. After the recession there will not be. When Uber says get your hustle on, it sounds like a Southerner’s hallucination of how Masters spoke to their Slaves. Read History. Humans only have so many moves. They are keeping us …
Best singer born of these Everett (Wa) streets? Definitely Kenny Loggins, hands down. I’m glad he got out and made all those Yachts f☆cking rock boss. FACT: He was almost my cousin. His loss, and most definitely my loss well. NOT A FACT: Danger Zone was written about cruising North Everett before cruising was banned …
I didn’t realize how garbage the state of popular rap and music in general was until I heard the so called hits they are using over the PA at the Hawks game. It is indefensible. The bar is so low for music that the #1 Country hit of our generation was a beat some kid …
I just can’t get into this new sh☆t when I go backwards through time. Not so far though. We have only been recording music for about 100 years. People are still alive before a Jazz record even existed. The paradox is that I am asking you listen to my new music, in the world of …
BLACK OUTS: You want to see me dropkick a blackout clause? FYI Morgan Henley Presents knows they are evil too. He is a rare promoter that has never made a band sign one. A National act on the come up emailed me to team up on a Seattle date, in a room I can pack on …
Tim Alexander’s lovely wife apologized to me after the concert. She admitted she didn’t recognize me and marveled at how The Staxx Brothers replaced their singer with another guy that could sound so much like him and had so many of the same moves. She didn’t see the transformation play out on social media so that is …
If The Original Jazz Cabbage works out, that group is going to sharpen my mind and transform me as drastically as you watched my appearance change in the last year or so. I sat there smiling today at two 21 year olds and a 19 year old talking circles around me about theory and chord voicings as …
Ric Ocasek won. He had the hottest wifey in Rock and they were in love forever and ever. He got the girl, he got the hits in the 1980s hiding the fact he was as old as Mick Jagger. I don’t cry for guys like Ric. If I knew him maybe. 75 years in Rock …
One of the highlights of my Seattle work day: during a ten minute break I innocently stretched to 15, I walked into Lenny’s Grocery and shopped for fresh vegetables as I strummed and sang through Frank Sinatra’s ‘That’s Life’ and Dean Martin’s ‘That’s Amore’. The folks there love it when I bring my guitar and …
I made a millennial’s head explode when I explained to her that even Youtube stars are slaves to Google. They are floating a multi-billion dollar platform, self producing their own shows they give to a platform that pays them what they could make on salary for Amazon. Oh Momma’…sweet Freedom. This is a scam. These …
‘Look at Your Game Girl’ by Charlie Manson is a problem. Marilyn Manson never wrote a song as good as ‘Look at Your Game Girl’. That is a demo and Marilyn never sang as well as that on a major label release. Most of Charles Manson’s songs are trash. But he has one diamond that …
Graves Hansen is doing great work making Seattle more beautiful. I first saw this in Brighton and was so happy to see it move across the Atlantic swiftly in the hands of such able and authentic artists like Hansen who I understand has done hard time for his part in the evolution of graffiti art. …