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Best Laid Plans
The Ottawa Jazz Festival ended last night. If you were planning on attending and hadn’t noted the dates you probably aren’t all that thrilled with me for bringing that up. My apologies…but really, it is up to you to keep on track of these things. I am neither your mother nor your secretary. I mention […]
Love & Mercy
I think it was about 1979 that I saw Brian Wilson on stage with the Beach Boys. I don’t know when I have been more embarrassed for someone. Brian at the time was dealing with mental health issues, had been for more than a decade. The stories were legendary, how he had stayed in one […]
LeRoux II – Toiling In Obscurity
“Rock and roll is not pretty, but somebody’s gotta do it.” – Bobby Campo. I only met him once, but that statement has been stuck in my head for more than 30 years. Bobby Campo was then (and for most of the past four decades) percussionist, horn player and violinist for LeRoux (or Louisiana’s LeRoux […]
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