I received a grant in the 90s for a vague project having something to do joining sounds I intended to record in Asia with photos I intended to take and stories I’d try to tell.  It all fell apart, or, more precisely, never came together.  However, as part of this I interviewed friends, guides, and…

In 1988 or so I mentioned to my sister that I’d had a pregnancy scare with my girlfriend. She recorded a cassette tape of her colicky daughter whimpering and crying and sent it to me, labeling the cassette “birth control.”  I sampled bits of it and made a little composition for her as a gift.

My sister Ellen worked for many years rowing a boat named “Music Temple” for a company called Grand Canyon Dories. In 1982 she invited our family to come on a staff trip through the entire canyon from Lee’s Ferry to Lake Mead. It took three weeks. I brought along a cheap guitar, a kalimba, and…

Greg Wallace was the leader, singer and bass player in my high school band. He was a natural rock star; a great musician and composer, completely at ease in front of the mic.

From her album “Three Day Rain” released in 1994 on East Side Digital.

Wendy sang on “The Fall of Us All” and other projects under the nom de plume “Rhea Valentine”, which was also the name of her band. I helped her out by recording her band in my studio and adding electric guitar to these tunes sometime around 1996. Wendy Lewis:  voice Dave Lewis:  drums Ward Harper:…

In June of 1974 I hitched from St. Paul to Missoula Montana to meet Doug Ross, the drummer in my high school band. We traveled from Montana to California, down the west coast, and across to Austin, Texas where we stayed in a house in Buda (just south of Austin) with Doug’s friends from The Lost…