I took my troubles way beyond the grave,
I wasn’t feeling very tough or brave,
I sold my potions on Hollywood and Vine
And there I was at
Bardo Station Number Nine. Continue reading →

Tommy Steele – lead guitar
Tommy was the architect of the band’s sonic storms. His guitar lines didn’t just solo—they spiraled, bending blues roots into something strange and electric. Quiet, intense, and always listening, he was the guy who could turn a simple riff into a ten-minute journey nobody forgot. Continue reading →

Music Medicine: What We’re Actually Doing With All This Music

What you’re hearing here today—whether it’s one piece or fifty, whether it has lyrics or not—is part of a larger idea that’s been developing for a while now. We’re not just making songs. We’re working with sound as a tool. All of it.

Every track, every variation, every arrangement—no matter the style—is part of the same experiment. What does this do? Continue reading →

I’ve been working on a playlist for the morning show, which you’ll see and hear then. Continue reading →

PEGGY LANE – JAZZ INTERPRETATIONS
An E.J. Gold Project

Peggy Lane is a torch singer for the modern age—timeless, intimate, and unmistakably present. With a voice that drifts between velvet restraint and emotional fire, she brings new life to the classic language of jazz interpretation. Continue reading →

War for Fun and Profit

The video game.

What if war didn’t need a reason anymore? What if it didn’t need a story, or a cause, or even an enemy? What if all it needed was a system—and a player?

That’s the idea behind War for Fun and Profit. Continue reading →

There’s a lot of benefit to be had from listening to the same song in twenty bands playing forty different arrangements.

What you’re really doing there isn’t just “listening to variations”—you’re training the ear to separate essence from appearance. Continue reading →

Friends, blog readers, and everyone in our Zoom circle—

Something interesting happened tonight while we were playing around with images. We produced what started as a humorous photo—me standing inside a UFO with two Greys—and then turned it into a magazine cover. The result was surprising. It didn’t just look like a joke or a novelty graphic. It looked like a real pulp magazine cover you might see on a newsstand.

That’s worth thinking about for a moment. Continue reading →

The Quiet Language:

Secret Communication Through Morse Code

Long before the internet, long before encrypted messaging apps, there existed a remarkably simple system that allowed human beings to communicate across great distances — and sometimes right under the noses of people who did not want them to communicate at all.

That system was Morse code. Continue reading →

Last night I didn’t write a blog.

Instead, I built something.

Many of you know that I’ve been experimenting with song generation using a very simple but powerful method. Rather than writing one song and polishing it endlessly, I take a lyric idea and send it through a series of different musical environments. Each environment is a different band, style, or arrangement.

Same words.
Different musical universe. Continue reading →