watching swirling winds and blowing snow in front of the fireplace, feb 2013

real life drama in feb 2013! i'm ok!!

Another Feb 2013 RPM tune - reading some history on the Commanches...music has a Peter Rowan influence

Just something that developed out of thin air...

another snowy day in Feb 2013 with a cup of Irish coffee..

I guess I had mariachi music floating through my head...written on another Feb. 2013 snow day...

who doesn't like pb&j?

a song that just evolved during RPM 2013...it was my new RPM strategy - record what happens, try to build it, move on, don't think too much about it...keep moving! It was a different approach for me this year...

written during one of the several blizzards/snow storms to hit New Hampshire in Feb 2013 - for RPM...

Don't really remember the story for this...written smack dab in the middle of Feb in RPM madness...it happenened, then I moved on and I let go of it...Mike Novak on egg...another song where I waited for a drummer friend to show up that never did...

Based on a trip to Italy while reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman series...my drummer(s) bailed on me at the last minute..so no drums here...boo hoo but maybe in the future

Messing around with a Korg. Part of my outer-space theme - the Apollo program ended with Apollo 17...imagine if they had 51 missions! Also, a subtle link to Area 51.

Named by a friend, there is a little island that appears and disappears with the tide. We go there sometimes in the Great Bay in New Hampshire. Bob Kordas on dobro.

My last rpm song - based on the police log in a local paper. The writer must have been feeling poetic - more than half of these are word for word and the rest were slightly changed to fit the rhyming scheme. My incomparable musicians: Dobro…

a young space whale is looking for its mother....its swimming in the vicinity of the moon Europa...it calls for her..and calls..and calls...the mother hears the call and answers back...they rendezvous at Europa

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I was planning on doing a theme-based rpm this year on outer space, but didn't manage to get all the rpm songs to fit. I've been reading a lot of Stanislaw Lem - probably my favorite science fiction author - and dedicate this to him. His books…

Watching events unfold in Syria...I can't imagine what its like...to all those caught in the crossfires throughout the world...hang in there...

I wrote this in Feb 2012 - I've been getting into watching documentaries on the NASA Apollo program and also having fun with a Telecaster. The Sea of Tranquility is a place on the Moon.

Recorded at an oceanography meeting in Salt Lake City this February (2012). The Ekman Spiral is a phenomena that describes the vertical change in ocean current from wind at the surface, which is in a spiral decreasing with depth. The spoken…