I am exhausted, I feel like I’ve been to or at least through every section of Los Angeles today, increasingly late as the day raced on.
I’m back in Venice now. It’s time for a little vinyl sunset with Al Green ‘Truth n Time’:
I’m pretty sure I’ll be back out in just a few moments though, “all we need is time…”, yes please, Al, a little more time.
Love,
SJ
OG iPod:
I’ve been digging through a bunch stuff from my studio in Venice Beach, and in a box with thousands of cables and other electronic castaways, I found this original iPod from 2001. And it still works! I was completely surprised to see it boot up when I plugged it in just for fun, and then I raced (scrolled very quickly on the olde wheel, pre-touch screen) to see what playlists I was listening to ten years ago.
I am very pleased to see the Clash are ever-present in my history.
Buried in boxes,
SJ
I was in the mood for some delicious Radiohead this morning:
The guitars and Thom’s voice are just too lovely together.
Enjoy!
SJ
Lovers of live music, you are always on the top of our minds and in the depths of our hearts!
Come on out to the Copper Gate in Ballard on Fri May 31 for some fun rock-and-roll tunes in one of our favourite rooms in Seattle:
More details, map etc: https://www.sjatr.com/shows
The Brothers Jim are going to start the evening off with some folk-rock magic at 8PM, and then we’ll take over the ship shortly after 9PM until we are all spilling over with rock-and-roll goodness and fun times.
We’re all going to walk away from this feeling pretty great, see you there!
SJ
PS. This show is only $5!
The first album I ever bought was by The Doors. I was young, still in the single digits of years, and I needed a song to play over and over again, ‘The Unknown Soldier’ by The Doors. My mother had to drive me to the music store to get my own because my brother wouldn’t let me play his copy of it anymore.
I found ‘The Unknown Soldier’ on ‘The Doors 13’, it was a greatest hits collection, not a proper album but it was perfect for me to get a sample of what this band had been about. I listened to that tape over and over and over again. ‘Light My Fire’, ‘Love Me Two Times’, ‘Hello, I Love You’, ‘You’re Lost Little Girl’, they were all so exciting to my young impressionable mind.
The weird thing is, I never bought another Doors album again, I quickly branched off into other bands and albums and styles. I would listen to the Doors on the radio and still loved them, but I hadn’t purposefully pressed play on their music much more in my life since, especially in comparison to other music I love. But when I look back on my life and how much that record probably influenced some of it is clear and stark, and I am deeply grateful to the band that created it.
Ray Manzarek may not have been the front man of The Doors, but his keyboard defined so much of The Doors sound and feel that you could never imagine the band without him. A little online research about him will tell you a lot more about him than I can here, his accomplishments are impressive, I only have my personal gratitude to share. My path in music, living in Venice Beach, my love of rock-and-roll keyboard, and much more, may have all been shaped by that first record. I don’t know if the older generation of rock-and-roll performers know how much they mean to us, and how much we hate to see them go.
Thank you Ray Manzarek, R.I.P.
Love,
SJ
Good morning, fellow cosmonauts. Jimi and I are inviting you to tea:
SJ
Phil and I are playing at Acoustic Armageddon at the White Rabbit in Fremont this Tuesday, May 21, come on out it’s going to be a fun night!
Best,
SJ
