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Suddenly, Last Summer

Bart had to be on the Vineyard early the next day for some family get-together so I took Amtrak back to Providence. From the train I could see a lot of the green nothing between cities, ragged thunderclouds trailing gray rain in the sunny July sky. When I arrived the pavement was wet but the [...]

Posted 06 January 2010 † daron § Daron's Guitar Chronicles ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Always Something There to Remind Me

I took Remo to The Brickhouse, a blues bar tucked on the edge of Providence’s vacant downtown where the bouncers knew me and wouldn’t bug me about not having ID. I was in there all the time. This was a kind of rough place, a different set of townies from the Cage, with regular brawls, [...]

Posted 16 November 2009 † daron § Daron's Guitar Chronicles ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Liner note #1

Yeah, hi, so she and I have been arguing over who is going to write these liner notes and I won. For once. God, these authors, you’d think they wanted to control everything. I might let her write some later. I won’t jump in with these too often because after all you’re supposed to be [...]

Posted 09 November 2009 † daron § Liner Notes ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Invisible Touch

I always thought that eye makeup would be as garish and obvious to the wearer as it was to an onlooker—like horn-rimmed glasses or mirror shades or something. I was wrong; once the mascara and eyeliner and eyebrow pencil and whatever else were on, I forgot about them. Which meant that I got a mild [...]

Posted 01 November 2009 † daron § Daron's Guitar Chronicles ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

I Love Rock and Roll

(Yes, this is the first post. Have fun.)
After soundcheck me and Tollman and Doug smoked a little weed in the back room. That is, they smoked and I faked it. Tollman handed me the joint, and I cupped it and did what I thought was a pretty convincing inhaling act. Tollman wasted his toke talking [...]

Posted 01 November 2009 † daron § Daron's Guitar Chronicles ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , ,