AN ICON OF AMERICAN MUSIC HAS PASSED – DICK CLARK DIES AT 82. “Music is the soundtrack of your life” -Dick Clark.
For those of us who grew up in the era when Dick Clark’s American Bandstand was ‘must see’ TV, this is a big time loss. The music we saw on television was what motivated us to sing and want to record. http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/18/tv-legend-dick-clark-dies/

I met Eva through her husband. Ziggy Stachniak, a professor at York University in Toronto. He interviewed me for a book he is doing about software distribution and the juxtaposition between NABU, a Canadian company and my company The Games Network, back in the mid-eighties. In conversation he told me his wife was a successful writer and so she is. I have already downloaded and begun Winter Palace, a historical novel of Catherine the Great. She sent Laurie and I us a nice note and links to her four books. She is a bestselling author and if you like 18th century European historical fiction you should enjoy her books.

For those of us who grew up in the era when Dick Clark’s American Bandstand was ‘must see’ TV, this is a big time loss. The music we saw on television was what motivated us to sing and want to record.

Just finished an important milestone chapter before the end of the book, working title of TELEPATHY. As it probably should be, this is the hardest part for me to write emotionally. It’s very straight forward but it’s the beginning of my private descent into hell and it wasn’t a good time for the group either; Las Vegas, popular music and the kinds of rooms we played had begun to change, too. It was hard but it’s important to keep these changes we, and me, were going through in the proper perspective. There were moments of dark humor. Still, I get little heart bumps …

A recent check for the Look Back In Love video on YouTube shows that it is being confusing with a group we are in NO WAY AFFILIATED with that is using our old name. Part of that may be because of the very weird name I gave it. I’ve altered that and so it’s probably changed the link as well. Here it is for anyone who’d like to see it and perhaps Like it. 🙂 It has a lot old photos from Las Vegas in the era and places we played there: the Caesars, the Flamingo, the International (now the Hilton), the Thunderbird, and the ever popular Pussycat A’ Go Go, where we got our first foothold. http://youtu.be/W5WG1ulHTuc Obviously a lot of what happening around the group at the time this record was starting to make some noise is an important part of “A Naked Car Thief”.

Finisihng final narrative, last chapter will be THE HIGHWAY TO HOLLYWOOD