I’ll never forget the feeling I had as a 6-year-old kid listening to this song. The drum fill on the intro of this tune scared the daylights out of me. The James Brown groove, the horn blasts, the rhythm guitar playing, and at the end, the chanting and screaming just blew my little mind. I…
Read moreBroadway Lives Matter
I keep reading about all of the people who are on unemployment, sitting around collecting the supplemental $600 in federal pandemic money on top of their state’s unemployment benefit. In an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows implied that federal money shouldn’t be extended because it “paid people to stay…
Read moreThe Black Neil Peart – My Manchester High School “Battle Of The Bands” Story
This photo was from the Manchester High School Battle of the Bands – circa 1982 or 1983. Back during this time, I swore I was the black Neil Peart. Neil was the drummer of the rock band Rush. He’s on almost everyone’s top 10 list of greatest rock drummers of all time. I never really…
Read moreThink Things Through
Since the beginning of March I’ve been collecting my thoughts and observations and publishing them in a newsletter entitled Think Things Through. I discovered the Socratic method many years ago and found it fascinating. When you start asking people questions, and digging deeper into what people are really feeling and thinking, they tend to either…
Read moreDrumming for “Ain’t Too Proud” – The Miller Machine
When I first got the call to start working on Ain’t Too Proud – The Life And Times Of The Temptations, I was curious about which era the show was going to focus on. Their career began in the early 1960’s and they’re still releasing albums today. I first heard of The Temptations when I…
Read more#CancelRent! – Are you participating in the rent strike?
From my daily Newsletter – Think Things Through I swear, someone wrote a musical based on not paying rent in the 90’s, didn’t they? There is a growing movement in several states that has been brewing on social media. A hashtag #CancelRent has sprouted and there have been online video rallies, and a few…
Read moreAin’t Too Proud “My Girl” A Capella
Hansen Unplugged: Anthem Protests Not About Disrespecting The Flag
Betsy DeVos Changing the Rules On Title IX Campus Sex Misconduct Enforcement
“On campuses throughout the country, I’ve seen firsthand how colleges and universities are wrongfully implementing their own kangaroo courts to adjudicate accusations of sexual misconduct and destroying the lives of wrongfully accused male students,” Miltenberg said. “Title IX was meant to be a tool for fairness, not a means for colleges and universities to micromanage…
Read moreWhy marriage, not just living together, may be the key to family stability
An interesting study by: W. Bradford Wilcox and Laurie DeRose Our results suggest that there is something about marriage per se that bolsters stability. It could be the elaborate ritual marking the entry into marriage; the norms of commitment, fidelity, and permanence associated with the institution; the distinctive treatment of family and friends extended to married…
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