The Setting: The new Bob Center is in Tulsa Oklahoma because the Woody Guthrie Center is there, and because both were paid for by the OK billionaire philanthropist George Kaiser. Tulsa is remarkably like the midwestern town of Winnipeg I grew up in — flat farmland, low-rise, about a half-million people — and both with […]
The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa
April 30th, 2023 · 5 Comments · Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
Tags: Barack Obama·Bob Dylan·George Harrison·Jack Kerouac·Lenny Bruce·Neil Young·Oklahoma·Pete Seeger·Ralph Gleason·Tom Wilson·Tulsa·Woody Guthrie
Don’t be Denied — “Young Neil” book review
October 5th, 2014 · 22 Comments · Music
I’ve been waiting for this book for a long time! As a teenager in Winnipeg in the ’70s, Neil was a god to us. We drove the 500 miles to Minneapolis during grade 12 at Kelvin to see him for the first time — and to our great dumb-luck fortune, it was the Rust […]
Tags: Kelvin·Neil Young·perseverance·Toronto·Winnipeg
Alice Cooper, Dr. John & Tom Waits Rock n Roll HoF Inductions — What They Play & What They Say
March 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Music
Got live if you want it . . . The last great Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. There’ll never be another with as many key, great musical artists in one year. The following is a customized composite of tweets, blogs n news reports on the untelevised Induction ceremony, including sequence and set-lists, […]
Tags: 2011·Alice Cooper·Bette Midler·Dr. John·Hall of Fame·induction ceremony·Leon Russell·Neil Diamond·Neil Young·New York·Rock n Roll·Tom Waits·Waldorf Astoria