The Recovering Hopper

  O n a whim last week I decided to listen to all the Doors releases with Jim Morrison singing, in chronological order, one album a day.  ...

  1948 - 2025   W hile I was never a real fan of Ozzy per se, I was a huge fan of Black Sabbath, the band that first brought him success...

    T his is a new development.   So far 2025 has not struck me in any particular literary way. Nothing has really jumped out at me, n...

  W ho is this dashing young rogue?   First, a little background.   This Valentine’s Day came and went, flew by with some flair. Pat...

  F or Christmas, my wife bought me this book:     It’s My Effin’ Life by Geddy Lee, the bassist and vocalist for the Canadian progressi...

  A very true and illuminating peek for non-musicians into the mind of the guitarist:   I played seriously in hard rock bands from 1986 ...

  F orgive me a cliché, but –   I was today years old when I found out –   The song “Breathe,” the first sung song on Pink Floyd’s 1...

  T he album Catalina Breeze by the Blue Jean Committee: In the spirit of Spinal Tap and The Folksmen of Michael McKean, Christopher Guest...

  Mozart: A Life , by Maynard Solomon © 1995   I spent the past five weeks winding my way through a thick biography of Wolfgang Amadeus ...