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BIG SUR MARATHON 2011
I’ve been a producer at KSBW for ten years. The slide on Highway 1 in Big Sur was huge news– bigger than the hole that had just swallowed the road. When the video first came into the newsroom there was an audible reaction to the damage from the whole crew. “How in the world could [...]
BLOG – “Tupelo Honey”
What’s your favorite song? I realize that we’re just getting to know each other on this blog, and I know it’s a deep question, but I believe it’s so important that you be able to answer it. Shuffling through the playlist in the history of your mind is not easy. So many great moments: concerts, [...]
BLOG – “INTERVENTION OF A MUSIC HOARDER”
“Hi. My name is Ben and I’m a musicoholic. Cover to cover Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks is my ecstasy. My marijuana is Bob Marley’s ‘Three Little Birds.’ Anything by Joss Stone serves as my crack cocaine fix. And who needs ED drugs when God gave us Marvin Gaye and Maxwell?” I’m told that admitting to [...]
Why Did You (Ba)Du That?
Erykah Badu has just been charged with disorderly conduct by the Dallas Police Department for the naked, public video she recently shot near the JFK memorial. The video for “Window Seat” has garnered all sorts of publicity – much of it negative in her home city of Dallas. Today (Friday, April 2nd), Sergeant Warren Mitchell said, [...]
BLOG – “THE HALVING OF MAYER’S HEART”
Recently I read a great article in Rolling Stone. Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton interviewed together. Guitar royalty talking about the evolution of The Yardbirds, their admiration for each other’s talents and their subtle competition to outdo each other. Both agreed that B.B. King is the Master of Blues and Jimi Hendrix is the God [...]
BLOG – “SXSW WATERFALL”
It was an average winter night in early 2007. My wife and I were sitting on the couch unwinding from a long day. The TV was on, but we were obliviously lost in our own worlds. Then, all of a sudden, the silence was shattered with a smooch. Not from the misses and me. From [...]
