Chopping Heads

Dueling Banjo's


Dueling guitars.
Chopping heads with Steve Vai and Ry Cooder. Steve beats himself. Ralph Macchio's blitz at the end is actually Vai.

The ending is based on Paganini 5th Caprice.

Bad Brains Banned in DC

Bad Brains Banned in DC @ CBGB's 1982. Take in the exuberance of this audience. You could power vegas on this energy.


In '89 I snuck into a Bad Brain sound check at the Country Club in Reseda, Ca. Dr. Know was astoundingly cool when he OK'd me to open up for their sold out show. I played 2 songs on my acoustic. One was a cover of the Bad Brain's Regulator. Total Irie of a night.

Never have I experienced, before or since, such extreme energy from both a band and an audience. Disbelief even while witnessing. Functioning as part of that energy. The energy contained in the small building on Sherman Way and Canby grew to be surreal. I am still feeling the shock waves nearly 20 years later.

Here they are in 2006 back at CBGB's. I and I survive.

Observing and being part of a Bad Brains audience is a worthy music lesson as any.

Oscar Peterson Goodbye y Art Tatum

R I P Oscar.



Positive yet haunting. A simple melody that Oscar beats the fleas out of.

Art Tatums influence upon Oscar has been often mentioned.

Billy Preston How Great Thou Art

How Great Thou Art 1988

This version of Billy playing Summertime is a crusher as well.