What a pleasure to meet Rod Argent, keyboardist, singer and song writer for The Zombies and Argent. We share a laugh about an old Zombies photo at the Hippiefest in Phoenix.



In the background is Joey Mulland from Badfinger.

Also in the room was Colin Blunstone, lead singer of The Zombies. Colin still has an incredible voice and is such a generous person.

Former Moody Blues singer (Go Now) and member of Paul McCartney's group Wings for ten years, Denny Laine poses with Valerie.



That's Country Joe McDonald in the Peace sign hat and tie-die "Make Love Not War" t-shirt. Read more about Denny Laine here.

Had the pleasure of attending a 60s flashback concert this weekend with lots of rock music in the air. One of my favorites at the meet & greet was Country Joe McDonald from Country Joe and the Fish.



Joe has been making very interesting history in the world of folk and rock music for decades and was very accommodating. Visit and be amazed at his web site at Country Joe's Place.

I was visiting Nate in San Diego this weekend since he had a business trip and needed company from one or both parental units. We had a great time, of course, but the highlight was the baseball game. Nate is a die-hard Yankees fan so the fact that the Padres were playing the current world champions Boston Red Sox was attractive to him and intriguing to me. We scored face-value tickets to the upper deck and had great seats with an unobstructed view of the field. The game had lots to occupy the sold-out crowd. There were two reversals of umpire calls, the second of which precipitated an ejection of Boston’s manager. Speaking of ejections, a BoSox fan behind us was eventually thrown out for dropping the F-bomb too many times in the family friendly confines of Petco Park.

Much to Nate’s happiness and every Boston fan's dismay, the Padres won 6-1. Nate had fun taunting the Boston fans pretending he was a Padres fan.

While sitting at a local Starbuck’s reading Rolling Stone’s review of new media they were playing Instant Karma, The Campaign to Save Darfur. I was not making the connection that I was reading the review of Instant Karma while listening to John Lennon’s Collection CD until my eyes read the title “I’m Losing You” at exactly the same time it came on the system in the store. The review praised Corinne Bailey Rae’s lonesome-gospel fire rendition of the song and that it “…located the R& B heart in Lennon’s best writing.”

… by the way if I use the restaurant fake name of Steve, you don’t get to change it to Steven without my fake permission. This isn’t catholic school.