"They don't even know what it is to be a fan! To blindly love some silly piece of music... or some band so much that it hurts..." - Almost Famous

I got my first guitar some time in the early 80’s. I can no longer recall if it was ’80, ‘81 or even ’82. But I know I had it in ’82. I take that back, by ’82 I had what I consider my first guitar. But truth is, there was a six-month period in there when I had a ¾ scale acoustic which I rapidly outgrew. I hadn’t wanted an acoustic guitar. I had wanted an electric. At one point, I had wanted an all-black Fender Stratocaster like I’d seen The Edge play on U2 Live at Red Rocks.

Every month, 1.5 billion people log into their youtube accounts and watch videos. There are likely many more millions that watch videos, but don’t login. In short, a lot of people go on YouTube. While streaming may seem like a fairly new method of listening to music since maybe 4 years ago, YouTube has allowed for the streaming of music and music videos long before Spotify, Apple Music and any other service. Combine the fact that YouTube is a platform for more than music and

What was your first job? For many, like myself, the first time going to work was with my father. I’d get up at zero dark thirty, stumble groggily to the car and go with him to work for part of the summer when I was 14. I’d do the grunt work, things like take inventory, clean up, basically all the stuff he didn’t want to do. All the full time employees were happy to have me around, because I would also do the stuff they didn’t want to do. I was the gofer, the low man on the to

(Check out the playlist below!) When I got the idea to write about live albums I thought it would be a simple thing to do. Explain the difference between live and studio recordings, rattle off the titles of some of my favorites and done. How wrong I was. Every time I thought I had a concise argument I would discover many tangents and have to rethink my position. Alas, in the interest of time (and space) I will be as brief as I can be. What is a live album? Some would say it i

I have to start off by saying how much music festivals give me anxiety. I want to see the bands but the people make me nervous. Everyone is so intense and has to push their way up to the front. I get it, I want to be as close as I can for artists I’m really excited to see too. But sometimes it gets to be a little much for me, to the point where the experience is not as enjoyable as I first imagined it would be. Once I saw the lineup for FYF Fest though, I knew I had to push a