From the monthly archives: November 2009
The Jersey Shore
We arrive in our gasping, grunting white Ford Fairlaine
The crying gulls begin as if on cue
like Hendrix, the noise challenges and displaces the air around us…
crazy 8′s The Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet Clang! (CL-507, 2009) crazy 8’s is the name of the first music released under The Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet moniker and the world is better place for it. The band has been together for a year and a half under former NRBQ [...]
Hey there ~shaking~ friends. It’s been a while, I know. See, we’ve been real busy at the global headquarters creating a new look, changing our publishing format, and in case you’ve missed it, putting up new material on a daily, yes daily, basis. At ~shaking~ we discovered that making our readers wait for [...]
The first time I laid eyes on him was in Agriculture Class and we were both assigned the task of filling sausage skins together. Other students were paired up and assigned different tasks, cutting ribs from pigs, cleaning up scraps as they fell to the floor, air packing steaks and pork chops. This [...]
…“I may be a fool and a pimp from the brothels, but I know about love, if only because I long for it with all of my being,” Toulouse, Moulin Rouge Now to get personal. My bad luck with relationships is notorious. I live in Boston, and around here it’s common knowledge that [...]
Among the ten recipients of the 2009 Whiting Writers’ Awards given annually by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation was poet Jericho Brown, who was featured in the Summer issue of shaking like a mountain. Commenting on this year’s group of three poets, four novelists and writers of short fiction writers, two nonfiction writers and a [...]
I’ll say this: I took guitar lessons at the age of 5 and have been playing and writing songs for the 45 years since. From L.A. punk/pop band The Spoilers, to folky trio Show of Hands, to folk/rock group Uma- with four solo records along the way… I’ve been semi-retired for the past ten years, [...]
Yeah, I’m in this band. Wilde at Heart. It’s this whole David Lynch / Oscar Wilde thing. Either you get it or you don’t.
The name is mine; in the sense that I made it up. More than that: I dreamed it. I fashioned it out of my creative consciousness. I’m a bass player. I play the bass.
The new album, Razzmatazz, includes sixteen songs that were written and recorded over the course of three weeks.
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