If I were writing for a major band today, I would submit the lyrics and see what they came up with — leaving the exact melody and instrumentation to the arranger. That’s how I wrote songs for dozens of bands over the past 65 years out of 84. Continue reading
Trouble woke me up this mornin’,
didn’t even knock on my door.
If I counted all my blessings,
I’d still come up short by four. Continue reading
We all know Donald by now. When he feels boxed in, he does something horrible to distract us. Continue reading
[Intro]
Before there was light, there was sound,
a trembling in the void, a humming profound.
No sky, no dream, no spark, no ground —
only the silence, an invisible mound. Continue reading
E.J. Gold reflects on six decades in music — from coffeehouses to AI — and why good sound has always been about heart, not hardware.
As a kid, I went to Norman Studer’s Downtown Community Center, where Pete Seeger taught us how to find songs, sing songs and play instruments, mostly folk and tribal. Continue reading
Sora is a text-to-video generator made by OpenAI. You type in a description, and it creates short, realistic video clips that match what you describe — with people, movement, lighting, camera angles, and all. It’s still in limited release, mostly to testers and partners, but more open versions are expected later. Continue reading
Here it is, another Sunday. What can we do to ignore Trump and his goonies? I know, I’ll post a “Sandwich Guy” video, that’ll calm down the wind coming from Washington just a little, and I’ll tell you what I would tell people who comment on my videos that it’s “obviously ai” — actually, it isn’t, and I’ll explain: Continue reading
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To refresh your memory, we were working yesterday with:
(40 songs, with many varying grooves, types of bands and styles of music.)
Today, we’re working with 40 variations on the theme. Continue reading
Sean Charles Dunn, age 37, is a Washington D.C. resident and former employee of the U.S. Department of Justice. On August 10, 2025, he approached a group of federal law-enforcement officers in D.C. and threw a “sub-style sandwich” — described as a salami hoagie — at one of them while shouting things like “You fascists! Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!” Afterward, he admitted plainly, “I did it. I threw a sandwich.” Continue reading
Here’s my suno version of “Kahuna and the Brain” — I’ll explain:
Years ago, our live band did a series of Wall Street songs, the most popular of which was “Kahuna and the Brain”, celebrating Joe Kernen and David Faber’s broadcast on Squawk Box. Our band appeared on their show over a four-hour period, playing our songs and being interviewed by Mark Haines. Continue reading