al harlow now

by | Nov 8, 2020

Anyone who knows and has followed Al Harlow for 40 or more years might be thinking Al Harlow At Last.Instead of getting the Harlow album they were long expecting, they’re getting Now, unbelievably Al’s first solo album. A lot can be read into an album...

a rainbow like you

by | Nov 6, 2020

I had a little trouble positioning myself as I read Andrea Fehsenfeld’s A Rainbow Like You. One one hand it tells the tale of a rock musician but, on the other, how media willfully can misrepresent somebody, often for their own ambitions.I’ve been both, a...

lost history

by | Oct 10, 2020

The book isn’t so much lost as it is stalled.While still working for The Province, I was asked to write a book about the history of Vancouver rock and roll. Asked might not be appropriate. When The Province asks you to do something, it really means you are being...

An evening with David Crosby

by | Sep 18, 2020

If it’s true that cats have nine lives, that cat David Crosby should be on eight or nine.He is the leonine figure of Crosby, Stills And Nash from 1968 and was the cat among the canaries, sorry, with The Byrds from 1964. He’s 79 this year and lived through...

wizard brothers

by | Aug 29, 2020

Barry Greenfield is a Beatles afficionado so he’ll understand when I say that Paul McCartney needed John Lennon and Lennon needed McCartney. They completed each other just by one another’s character imposing itself. So, it seems, with the Wizard Brothers, ...