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 don't…

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…

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…

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…

“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 2003.…