Science fiction My Brisbane school mates and I spent our tweenage years crimping our hair, slathering on make-up and trying to pass for drinking age to get into outer suburban discos. At around the same time, Eric Zala and his friends were spending their Mississippi tweenage years making a blockbuster[…]
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Composing cool tunes for warm people
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You’ve never seen anything like it The agent at the booth to the right of me was doing brisk business. Behind him was a plastic banner displaying a photo montage of musicians heavily jowled, paunched, but still throwing their silver hair around under purple stage lights: Eric Burdon and The[…]
Read More »The second episode of my mini-program ‘The Rebel Spirit’ is being broadcast on Australia’s ABC Radio National at 9.00pm Friday 2nd July (Aussie) time, 7.00am EST USA. It features an interview with the amazing American computer music pioneer Laurie Speigel, whose achievements include a record sent into space by NASA[…]
Read More »I just posted a new clip – a version of “I Walked With A Zombie” by psychedelic rock legend Roky Erickson, arranged and performed by myself and local dark rock superstar Carol Blaze. It features wild footage from Pittsburgh’s annual zombie march through Monroeville Mall, where George Romero shot his[…]
Read More »The first of a three part segment I have developed called The Rebel Spirit is going to air on Australia’s national broadcaster, Radio National, at 9.00 pm Friday June 4 Aussie time – thats 7.00 am Eastern Yankee time. After that, it will be airing the first Friday in July[…]
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Bob and Bing It had been my intention to devote my next posting to an exciting rendition of a planned trip to groovy Asheville, North Carolina, to help celebrate Bob Moog’s birthday. The Bob Moog Foundation, based in Bob’s home town where the original synthesizer factory and archives remain, is[…]
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LA Confidential My feel-good at being in the empty row with extra leg-room evaporated like an inhaled mary-jane cigarillo. The doe-eyed dame with the bub was swaying excited-like towards the seat one over from mine. “You got kids”? she asked. This without any invitation to talk from my eyes or[…]
Read More »I’m doing an interview with groovy LA based internet radio Luxuria tonight Friday 9 April at 9.00 pm Pacific time.
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I Feel Almost Normal The last few weeks I have used this blog not to chronicle my American adventures as usual, but to interview people involved in aspects of Australian cultural life I find inspirational. This is because my quick dash back to Australia in December turned into a four[…]
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This is the third in a series of interviews with people who are committed to aspects of Australian cultural life that I find inspirational. This time I talk to Nick Wilson, electronic noodler and independent label manager about the illustrious history and output of the Australian electronic underground. Nick Wilson[…]
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