notems
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In the early 1990s, I was living in Columbus, Ohio, working as a chemical analyst.It was a perfectly respectable career.I also found it inanely boring.I had studied chemistry at The Ohio State University and could have continued down the conventional academic path. Instead, like countless young musicians before me, I began wondering whether I could make a life ...
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6 Oct, 2020
I can't believe Eddie Van Halen passed away today. Like others, many others, his passing marks the end of my youth and a once youthful era that celebrated big hair, spandex, shoulder pads, parties (beer and cigarettes especially), fast and loud cars and Rock-n-Roll. When I first heard his playing, it scared me. The sounds that were emitted from his signature guitar were ...
