Category: Music

Of all the versions of this song out there, this is by far my favorite. I saw him perform it at Winterland in 1972. I wrote about it in my memoir, The Rise and Fall of the HoneyBun Empire. The early seventies: all things permitted. February 2, 1971: A Clockwork Orange is released. November 10,…

Heathen (The Rays) Steel on the skyline Sky made of glass Made for a real world All things must pass Oo-o Waiting for something Looking for someone Is there no reason? Have I stared too long? Oo-o, Oo-o You say you’ll leave me And when the sun is low And the rays high I can…

Here’s the song … simply amazing … damn … Betty came by on her way Said she had a word to say About things today And fallen leaves Said she hadn’t heard the news Hadn’t ahd the time to choose A way to lose But she believes Gonna to see the river man Gonna to…

F-A-C-G-C-E Never tried that one. I’ve used F-A-D-G-C-E and F-A-C-G-A-E … they make for some beautiful chordal shadings. One song began, “All those bright sunny days in those dark smoky bars …” I should finish it sometime. I have a smattering of lyrics in one notebook or another.

For some reason, it doesn’t bother me at all. I believe that all AI art sucks and people sense, on a visceral level, the phoniness, or more appropriately, the emptiness of the results of prompt-generated product, content, whatever you want to call it. Anything but art. Of course, I’m just an aging hippie, but a…