Today's News included thoughts about some of the threads on the Forum: sad songs, fingernails, busking and the banner. I was in a bit of an old timey/jazzy/swing mood and played pieces of some Dan ...
As we finished our visit Jim felt it would be a good idea to play a Lightning Hopkins tune, as he was probably the biggest influence on Jim’s venture into the world of being a ...
Jim had been thinking about songs that the TG audience might find particularly interesting and Anna Mae popped into his head. It is a fingerpicking delight, maybe worthy of a lesson here someday.
I asked Jim if he knew my first guitar teacher Bill Munday. It seems they ran in slightly different circles but I talked a bit about starting to take lessons and we went out on ...
We talked a little about some of the other characters in the early Los Gatos days and what had become of them. This led us into a short discussion about records and generally documenting life ...
As our conversation progressed we talked about other students of Alan Beilharz. Pat Simmons came up as a member of the Doobie Brothers who carried some of the Los Gatos tunes into his next life. ...
By the time Jim turned 20 in 1970 he had to move on and explore the world, or at least Greenwich Village, the heart of the New York music scene, or so it seemed at ...