Sunday, November 08, 2020

Landslidin' with Biden

Tried to put down some thoughts on the events of the past week, but I don't really have thoughts, just feelings. Relief, joy, hope, elevation...  a sensation of lightness, the lifting off and away of an immense heavy shadow. All the things everyone else is feeling. Well, except for the people who are feeling the opposite -  and who are still with us, still alarmingly numerous, still implacably lost. But let's not dwell on that right now... let's stay in the glow as long as we can.

What songs are large enough for this moment?  This is no time for subtle or emotionally complex or artfully ambivalent; only simple, direct, uplifting will do. 















Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Neon Hospice presents...

 Halloween entertainment for the mind, ears and eyes from Repeater Books





Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Boy oh Boy

 Here's a piece I did for Tidal on the early days of U2, when they were just another New Wave band jostling for attention, timed for the 40th anniversary of Boy. 

I could have sworn the first time I saw / heard U2 was them playing "A Day Without Me" on TV, but deduction led me to this performance  of "I Will Follow" on the after-school kids show Get It Together. 



Stop press: History Is Made At Night finds a 1980 TV performance of "A Day Without Me" that must be the one I remember - on the youth TV program White Light, presented by Gary Crowley 



                                                   The promo - with video FX mirroring the delay on the guitar 


Back when the singer went as Bono Vox 




Deluges of grandeur.