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Million Dollar Bytes from the Big Apple
8th April 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Following a long and successful run in Chicago, "Million Dollar Quartet" is about to open at the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway and West 41st Street. Yours truly went along to attend a preview and like the rest of the packed house, I came out totally blown away. Before expanding on the detail, a little sketching-in of background might not go amiss. "MDQ" is a celebration of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins,...
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The Ministry of Sound Radio
18th March 2010 | 4 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
It seems that hardly a day goes by without the finger of suspicion being pointed at the BBC. Googling and gossip is at an all time high, and the nation’s chattering classes and nattering networks are abuzz with criticisms and carping. The Corporation’s unfathomable remit and the indelicate quality of its output top the list of tetchy topics. Equally prickly are the budgeting excesses, ageism, political bias and that old...
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Bytes From The Big Cliché.
25th January 2010 | 0 comments | 2 people like this
Turned on the TV lately? Opened up a newpaper? Visited the cinema? If the answer is in the affirmative, then chances are you'll have been subjected to some of the most hackneyed slogans known to man. The métier of marketing is as old as trade itself, so the implementation of some new and original ideas that might kick the industry up the butt is well overdue. The earliest form of...
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Bytes From the Big Apple: A Really Big Tim McGraw Webcast
22nd October 2009 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Of late, the Ed Sullivan Theatre at 1697-1699 Broadway has been subjected to a level of interest not seen since the days when Elvis Presley appeared there in the fifties and the Beatles in the sixties. The venerable venue first made headlines after it opened as Hammerstein's Theater back in November 1927. Its grand title was bequeathed in honour of Oscar Hammerstein 1, whose opera-producing son Arthur was responsible for...
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Bytes From The Big Apple: “The Truth Hurts”
24th June 2009 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Last week necessitated a return visit to Nashville in order to celebrate the 17th birthday of my youngest daughter, Rosie. Coming so soon after relocating to New York, the experience was, to say the least, surreal. The buildings in and around Music Row that once suggested magnitude, now seemed sparse in comparison to the Castilian configurations that form the geography of Manhattan. That’s not to suggest that tall is better,...
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Bytes from the Big Apple “A Moving Experience Pt 2″
26th May 2009 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Meanwhile, back in Nashville the opportunity to straddle the genres came when I was invited to cut an album for Sire with Jerry Lee's little sister, Linda Gail Lewis.
Now this formidable lady is a true Earth Mother of rock n roll. Not content to live in any kind of shadow whatsoever, she is two spouses ahead of her legendary brother having been married no less than eight times.During the making... -
Bytes From The Big Apple: Moving house is a moving experience
26th May 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
"A Moving Experience". Now there's a phrase that pays, and all the more so if you are going through the process of relocation.
For the past few weeks every waking hour has been devoted to packing, boxing and generally condensing my life's work into an army of crates stamped with that impassive instruction, 'This Way Up'.After spending fourteen fascinating years producing, writing and playing bass in Nashville, the hand of guidance...
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