Frank Gutch Jr: Perspectives… Music— Does the Past Control Our Future? Music Snobbery. Lyricists, Take Note. Nightmare @ 20,000 Watts. And Information You Can Eat For Breakfast (Meaning, Notes…..).

Here I go on one of my cerebral journeys, most of which run into a brick wall and consign themselves to the ash heap.  I, like most of the world, have a very short attention span, it seems, and while I have bursts of genius (I swear!) little of it makes it to the outside world.  This time, the message(s) is(are) spurred by a link posted by friend Greg Phipps, with whom I worked at Peaches Records in Seattle in the 80s (Phipps, btw, records under the name Palestinian Israel-Jones, should you desire to visit his planet), who has been on a roll finding and posting or reposting questions and videos worth my, if not your, attention.  For instance, a couple of weeks ago, he asked about the negativity toward celebrities “selling out,” whoring their wares for profit.

Nadia Elkharadly: Don’t forget the Lyrics

Music is such an amazing thing.  It can tell a story with the pluck of a string, the beat of a drum, the sound of a voice, and of course, the combination of all of those things with words: stories, poetry; in short, lyrics.  Words set to music; it’s such a simple, even a common concept.  But sometimes, maybe even more often than not, these words, the lyrics to even the most popular songs go unlistened to, overlooked, even…ignored.