steve jensen/lower back pin

by | Oct 9, 2019

Calling Lower Back Pain’s first album “no frills” doesn’t just describe the packaging but the music as well. The album, Picnic On The Moon. doesn’t list who is in the band, where it was recorded and who produced, if anyone. From listening...

12 Step Program, book

by | Sep 12, 2019

12 Step Program Chapter One At last, some recognition for Bob Jansen. Too bad he’s dead. Never heard of Bob Jansen? He wrote 12 Step Program; that you must have heard. Every band of the 60s used to do it. That and Louie Louie and Gloria. Every band. It didn’t matter...

The Tracker: Between The Doing And Dying

by | Aug 5, 2019

THE TRACKER: BETWEEN THE DOING AND DYING I didn’t plan to be a detective. I even don’t know if I could be called a detective. I didn’t take any courses in crime investigation. I don’t have business cards with my contact numbers and a few words about my services. I was...

rock of ages revisited

by | Jun 18, 2019

Rock Of Ages is and isn’t what it seems. It’s of a time, so it isn’t ageless. It’s of a place, so it isn’t transcendent. Yet it is filled with songs that, 40 years later, are still well-loved and remembered; therefore ageless. Rock Of...

12 Step Program in one bite

by | Jun 11, 2019

2 Step Program Chapter One At last, some recognition for Bob Jansen. Too bad he’s dead. Never heard of Bob Jansen? He wrote 12 Step Program; that you must have heard. Every band of the 60s used to do it. That and Louie Louie and Gloria. Every band. It didn’t matter if...

The Centaurs

by | Feb 20, 2019

Money had nothing to do with it. A compilation of a little known group of the 60s, from Vancouver no less,  never was  going to rack up a profit. It’s hard enough to sell records by a “legendary” band from anywhere but Vancouver as it is. Jamie...