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Jun 11 2021

CHANGING STRINGS JAMS

Well it's finally happening: gigs are slowly opening up again, and I'm slowly preparing to re-emerge. 

As I cope with some post-COVID social anxiety, I take comfort in a familiar ritual by replacing my dead quarona lockdown strings (I…

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Dec 9 2020

REMEMBER 1980

John & Yoko photographed by Kishin Shinoyama at Café La Fortuna, New York, 18 August 1980.

To be honest I don’t remember much about the morning of December 9, 1980. My mother woke me up and broke the…

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Oct 6 2020

EDDIE VAN HALEN RIP

I'll always be grateful to Tommy Strazza for inviting me onto his Van Halen tribute show at Berklee in the 90s. Up until then the only VH I knew was "Jump" and the Hagar-era stuff (don't judge). But Tommy's thing…

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Jul 21 2020

"Fresh As A Daisy," for Emitt Rhodes (1950-2020)

Many years ago I recorded a cover of Emitt Rhodes’ “Fresh As A Daisy,” for possible inclusion on my solo EP Senza. It didn’t make the cut, but this mix has been sitting on a hard drive since then and…

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Jul 18 2020

SUNSET GRILL: use it or lose it

“Ready to be my personal Pino Palladino!!!??” 

That was the text from Steve Murphy - drummer, singer, one of the finest musicians on earth and my rhythm section road brother since we joined the Alan Parsons Live Project in…

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May 16 2020

Bass Magazine Lockdown Check-In With John Montagna

Bass Magazine's "Low End Lockdown Check-In" feature is reaching out to bassists around the globe as we adjust and maintain during the quarantine.

Thanx to Chris Jisi, Jon D'Auria and the whole BM team for welcoming me into the…

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May 13 2020

DON'T STOP THE MUSIC (quarona remix)

I don’t always play “private event” gigs, but when I do it’s usually with these rock stars. 

I wanted our “isolation collab” video to look and feel like we’re in the same room.

So I had everyone…

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Apr 24 2020

I Ain't Got You (but I got me!)

First it was the cancellations. Fest For Beatles Fans…Concert For Bangladesh Revisited…Flower Power Cruise…all gone within 72 hours. Then it was the bars and restaurants closed, so no more of those mid-week “stacking” gigs I did for the hang and…

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Apr 15 2020

Murray

This is a blog I dreaded writing.  But it’s the most effective way that I know to organize my thoughts, so here we are.  My stepfather, Murray Becker, passed away on Sunday, April 5th from a brief but severe (non-COVID)…

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Oct 2 2019

Radio 418 podcast: Better Days with JOEY MOLLAND

The Liverpool-bred guitarist, singer and songwriter brought his tough, rock and roll edge when he joined Badfinger in 1969. But that legendary group is only a part of Joey Molland’s story.  He has survived the ups and downs of…

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Jun 28 2019

Radio 418 podcast: Mark Lindsay ON the UMG Warehouse Fire

The story of a massive 2008 fire that destroyed untold thousands of irreplaceable master tapes owned by Universal Music Group has only fully come to light this year.  As a musician AND a music lover I'm compelled to weigh in…

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Feb 22 2019

Do I Have To Do This All Over Again? (RIP Peter Tork)

The news of Peter Tork’s passing broke yesterday afternoon, and within minutes there were tributes spreading across social media: links to Monkees songs he wrote and/or sang, photos, stories of personal encounters.  The remembrances of his colleagues paint a portrait…

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