drmstream[writing]

Why do I just wither and for­get all resis­tance When you and your magic pass by? My 12-year is ready to hear music now. Car rides become the oppor­tu­nity for dis­cov­ery. Yes­ter­day, we heard the care­ful bal­ance between art and craft and authen­tic­ity: Chrissie Hynde, Aretha Franklin and Sarah Vaughan. I could feel the music opening […]

Lis­ten and let your mind go still.

So, yes, things were get­ting a lit­tle too seri­ous around here.  For me, at least.  The seri­ous stuff was mak­ing my head bog down, and when that hap­pens it’s time to go grab for the light smile. After all, there are a few of you now.  I mean, an audi­ence, who’s decided to fol­low for a […]

I’m just a sucker for Joey Ramone’s soft voice.  He recorded one of my two all-time favorite cov­ers with It’s a Won­der­ful World (the other is the for­mer Stu­dent Teacher’s Philip Shelley’s unrecorded ver­sion of Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right, which I had on a cas­sette tape for the longest time before it sucuumbed […]

Amer­i­can Band­stand meets Deb­bie Harry. She goes utterly cool, a McLuhan-like anti­dote to the hot main­stream­ing of the Band­stand. The audi­ence? Watch for the hot-body boy­toy in the yel­low form-fitting T in the front row. Just to be sure younger read­ers know, that wasn’t the typ­i­cal look for the launch of New Wave. But it […]

Do not play what’s there; play what’s not there. Miles Davis

There was a time once when the open­ing bars of this song — almost any by the Pogues, really — would bring the sense of tears to the cor­ners of my eyes, a tight­ness across my chest.  There was so much Love that had been lost, so much yearn­ing that had been mis­placed, too many […]

A per­for­mance with John Cale in 1972 and with Pete Town­shend in 2007 of Wait­ing for The Man.  Watch both and reflect on what changes with age and what stays the same.

The impulse in song What wants to sing, to thresh the air with sound and watch the chaff rise, lift, grab, ele­vate, erupt Into a line of song that makes me want to swing my legs to and fro, snap my fin­gers like this? The ball of my foot pushes on the wood floor so I can see […]

via youtube.com Cov­er­ing the Plain White T’s. from Dan McCarthy’s Stream