Musings

What most people don’t know is that Brian’s got an incredible history going back to the early 1960s, when he was a young teenage guitar phenomenon in Los Angeles.

My second meetup of the day was with my friend Johnny Barnett, longtime drummer with such groups as Harold Cox and the Sooners, and the Trout’s house band.

I just interviewed Ed Sanner, the legendary electronics guy who invented such iconic guitar effect pedals as the Mosrite Fuzzrite, the Rosac Nu-Fuzz, and the Fuzz Blender.

I was digging through some boxes of 45 rpm records today and was really happy to stumble across the autograph I got from Doug Sahm just a few years ago, back in (gulp!) 1998.

“Harmonica Frank,” as he was known, is one of those mysterious and elusive characters in musical history, known primarily for his association with Sun Records in Sam Phillips’s earliest phase of his iconic Memphis record label.

Been doing some much-needed maintenance and repairs on my Scully lathe. The first (long) video details the steps they used in the 1930s/1940s for reducing vibration, a crucial element of using electric motors to cut sound into a blank lacquer disc.

I’m so happy to report that I just got off the phone with the legendary Ray Sharpe! Ray’s fate and health status has been a mystery for several years.

I always make terrible time on road trips. Today, on my way from El Paso to Phoenix, I made a long detour in Tucson to visit a couple friends.

I always like to listen to regional music as I’m passing through a particular region. On this stretch of highway, I’ve been playing lots of Buddy Holly and the Bobby Fuller Four.

“HORSES, MAN, HORSES! Y’ALL NEED TO BE TRAVELING ON HORSES!”