Robert Propst

“I don't play guitar, I wrestle it.”
                       - Bo Diddley

I'm guilty of not appreciating my rock and roll elders.  Of not being properly respectful of the pioneers whose contributions were the building blocks of the beloved art form. There…

“If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”
                                  - Clint Eastwood

We don't have movie stars anymore.  Not like we once did, anyway.  We know too much about everyone now.  There's no mystique.  Now we mostly just have people who…

“Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anyone who owns hideous clothing.”
                                                                                                                             - Dave Barry
 
Here's something that's long irritated me:  Can anyone explain why absolute silence and zero spectator movement are required in…

“Believe it or not, before I made this there was not a category for world's largest Nerf gun, but there is now.”
                                                                                                                                                     - Mark Rober
 
On this day in 1996, a new musical world record was set.  2,000 guitar players…

“It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect.”
                                                                                               - Bill Bryson/In a Sunburned Country

I knew a fella…

 "To study music, we must learn the rules.  To create music, we must forget them."
                                                                                                - Nadia Boulanger

Here's a funny story.  Kinda sad, but still funny.  By many people who know and care about such stuff, George Jones is…

“The road to hell is paved with leadoff walks.”
                                                      - Me

Friday means the good words found in songs. Good words that end up on repeat in your head.  The good kind, not 1-877-Cars-For-Kids or The Final Countdown.

This…

“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”
                                                           - Hunter S. Thompson
                                                                                                         

Look up the movie soundtracks considered the best of all time and you'll see lots of the same names.  

Garden State, Almost Famous, The Blues Brothers…

“Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no one is allowed to be magnificent.”
                                                                                                                                         - Kim Fowler

Today is the birthday of Joan Osborne, born in 1963.  Most know her from the song…

“Who the hell is Julius Caesar?  You know I don't follow the NBA.”
                                                                         - Ron Burgundy

Whatever the genre of music, without a doubt it has been sub-divided into smaller categories. Those in turn, sub-divided again and again down to…

“A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo.”
                                                                                                                                              - John Hartford

I bought a cheap pawn shop banjo recently.  I've been working at it a little bit.  I…

“The Indians they needed food and some skins for a roof; they only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof."
                                                                                                            - Great White Buffalo/Ted Nugent
                                                                  
The portrait seen here was painted for me by our…