Learning how to play an instrument, whether it is guitar (lead or rhythm), bass, drums or keyboard etc is a massive achievement, but learning to play is just the first step as when we learn to play an instrument we learn it for a reason and most of the time this reason is to form [...]
He writes a daily topical blog entitled “Dr. Digit’s Hollywood Memory Blog” online at www.bereftontheleft.blogspot.com. He is a volunteer reader at Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic in Hollywood and hosts a weekly program entitled “Inside Television” for Los Angeles Radio Reading Service for the Blind in Northridge, California, streamed online each Tuesday at 0820-0900 [...]
Marcus and Craig were quickly surrounded by several white college girls, who I supposed were getting their jollies by showing each other just how liberal they were by hanging out with two black musicians. Marcus was sitting on a couch, each arm draped around a pretty, young girl, and both of them were falling all [...]
Occasionally, I introduce a first-time author of whom I believe you should be aware. In the 1960s and 1970s, Jack B. Lloyd was a Hollywood talent manager whose clients included the Beach Boys, Jose Ferrer and Jim Backus, Mr. Howell on Gilligan’s Island and the voice of Mr. Magoo. His book “The Beach Boys Meet [...]
