Hi David,
Just want to thank you again for the gift of "A Fine Mess" and for sharing from where in your heart that gift came exactly. I would also like to thank you for your recommendation some time ago that we should check out Brad Mehldau. I now have all of his "The Art Of The Trio" discs and it's all great stuff. I love jazz and it's not music that gets promoted at all so you really have to go out and find it. Thank you for pointing me in his direction.
I have read some of your recent postings here and I have some questions if you have the time and interest in answering them. You wrote recently (and forgive me if I'm misquoting you here) that you are more excited about music right now than you have been in some time. I was wondering what has got your juices flowing right now? Are you involved in any projects that you can tell us about? Can you comment on recordings you have been working on or do you with respect to the other musicians & artists prefer not to talk too much about things until they are released? Is there music coming out now that has you excited because it may afford you the opportunity to do some things that you may not have had the chance to do otherwise? I read a while back that you were purging yourself of quite a bit of gear (you have openly admitted to having a gear buying disorder so I thought maybe just making room for more) and it seems The Palindrome website is not currently accessible so I wondered what happened. Did you move, remodel, close? With all the talk here about you playing out somewhere can you tell us the last time you actually did get up and get funky in front of an audience? That kind of leads me to another question about a guy named Jon Brion. He spent quite a while here in Boston and in the not to distant past there was a very nice article in the Boston Globe magazine about him in which they refered to him as a "musical genius". I know that term gets thrown around a lot to the extent that it becomes almost meaningless but he does seem to be a very interesting character. They also said in the article that he has sort of a resident jam session at a club called Largo, I think, at which other musicians just show up play songs mostly just made up on the spot. He has worked with Aimee Mann for quite some time who of course is married to your pal Michael Penn. I just wanted to know if you had (with all those obvious connections) ever had any interaction with Mr. Brion and have you ever shown up to play in one of those jam sessions at Largo? Sorry if this seems to be the damn Spanish Inquisition but I haven't really had the chance to post here in a while and I have a lot I wanted to ask.
I hope you and your family are happy and healthy and enjoying the season (that goes for everyone else reading this too not just David). Peace,
Reg
(The Walden Pond Romantic)
Christmas one year later...
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Hi David,
Just want to thank you again for the gift of "A Fine Mess" and for sharing from where in your heart that gift came exactly. I would also like to thank you for your recommendation some time ago that we should check out Brad Mehldau. I now have all of his "The Art Of The Trio" discs and it's all great stuff. I love jazz and it's not music that gets promoted at all so you really have to go out and find it. Thank you for pointing me in his direction.
I have read some of your recent postings here and I have some questions if you have the time and interest in answering them. You wrote recently (and forgive me if I'm misquoting you here) that you are more excited about music right now than you have been in some time. I was wondering what has got your juices flowing right now? Are you involved in any projects that you can tell us about? Can you comment on recordings you have been working on or do you with respect to the other musicians & artists prefer not to talk too much about things until they are released? Is there music coming out now that has you excited because it may afford you the opportunity to do some things that you may not have had the chance to do otherwise? I read a while back that you were purging yourself of quite a bit of gear (you have openly admitted to having a gear buying disorder so I thought maybe just making room for more) and it seems The Palindrome website is not currently accessible so I wondered what happened. Did you move, remodel, close? With all the talk here about you playing out somewhere can you tell us the last time you actually did get up and get funky in front of an audience? That kind of leads me to another question about a guy named Jon Brion. He spent quite a while here in Boston and in the not to distant past there was a very nice article in the Boston Globe magazine about him in which they refered to him as a "musical genius". I know that term gets thrown around a lot to the extent that it becomes almost meaningless but he does seem to be a very interesting character. They also said in the article that he has sort of a resident jam session at a club called Largo, I think, at which other musicians just show up play songs mostly just made up on the spot. He has worked with Aimee Mann for quite some time who of course is married to your pal Michael Penn. I just wanted to know if you had (with all those obvious connections) ever had any interaction with Mr. Brion and have you ever shown up to play in one of those jam sessions at Largo? Sorry if this seems to be the damn Spanish Inquisition but I haven't really had the chance to post here in a while and I have a lot I wanted to ask.
I hope you and your family are happy and healthy and enjoying the season (that goes for everyone else reading this too not just David). Peace,
Reg
(The Walden Pond Romantic)
Just want to thank you again for the gift of "A Fine Mess" and for sharing from where in your heart that gift came exactly. I would also like to thank you for your recommendation some time ago that we should check out Brad Mehldau. I now have all of his "The Art Of The Trio" discs and it's all great stuff. I love jazz and it's not music that gets promoted at all so you really have to go out and find it. Thank you for pointing me in his direction.
I have read some of your recent postings here and I have some questions if you have the time and interest in answering them. You wrote recently (and forgive me if I'm misquoting you here) that you are more excited about music right now than you have been in some time. I was wondering what has got your juices flowing right now? Are you involved in any projects that you can tell us about? Can you comment on recordings you have been working on or do you with respect to the other musicians & artists prefer not to talk too much about things until they are released? Is there music coming out now that has you excited because it may afford you the opportunity to do some things that you may not have had the chance to do otherwise? I read a while back that you were purging yourself of quite a bit of gear (you have openly admitted to having a gear buying disorder so I thought maybe just making room for more) and it seems The Palindrome website is not currently accessible so I wondered what happened. Did you move, remodel, close? With all the talk here about you playing out somewhere can you tell us the last time you actually did get up and get funky in front of an audience? That kind of leads me to another question about a guy named Jon Brion. He spent quite a while here in Boston and in the not to distant past there was a very nice article in the Boston Globe magazine about him in which they refered to him as a "musical genius". I know that term gets thrown around a lot to the extent that it becomes almost meaningless but he does seem to be a very interesting character. They also said in the article that he has sort of a resident jam session at a club called Largo, I think, at which other musicians just show up play songs mostly just made up on the spot. He has worked with Aimee Mann for quite some time who of course is married to your pal Michael Penn. I just wanted to know if you had (with all those obvious connections) ever had any interaction with Mr. Brion and have you ever shown up to play in one of those jam sessions at Largo? Sorry if this seems to be the damn Spanish Inquisition but I haven't really had the chance to post here in a while and I have a lot I wanted to ask.
I hope you and your family are happy and healthy and enjoying the season (that goes for everyone else reading this too not just David). Peace,
Reg
(The Walden Pond Romantic)
–--
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
