February 2012 kicked off the 0th anniversary of Innocent Words Magazine. With that in mind, we have decided to write one retrospective feature each issue documenting our biggest moments, good, bad or otherwise. One of the biggest highlights for me and Innocent Words came early in the magazine, April 23, 2003 to be exact. Pearl [...]
When the editor of Juliland asked me to make up a Top 10 list of my all-time favorite Christmas songs, well frankly, i didn't want to do it. I don't know why i didn't want to do it though, that's the bitch of it all. I like Christmas songs, hell i even like Christmas to [...]
What is it about the guitar that people flock too? In years of music there are like 100 guitar players to one bass player. Every local band I know has had trouble finding a bass player. Maybe it’s because guitar players get more chicks than bass players? And the drummers? Well forget about it, they [...]
I am kind of indifferent when it comes to bass. I am glad it’s there in the band, but I don’t obsess over it like a guitarist. I know the bass is important and there are hundreds of bass players that should be on this list rather than the ones I have, but these are [...]
A good friend recently sent me this link http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1655254/-rock-dead.jhtml written by Gil Kaufman wondering if rock was dead. They, and by “they,” I mean naysayers and the media, have been saying rock is dead for 40 years now. They said rock was dead when Elvis died, when Lennon died, when the punk movement of the [...]
When I was 12-years-old my first cassete was The Go Gos Vacation. This was a major turn after my early flirtation with my Kiss records (see previous blog http://www.innocentwords.com/Blogs/tabid/803/EntryId/81/You-Wanted-the-Best-You-Got-the-Best.aspx). But damn it, I couldn’t help myself. That song “Vacation” was so cool and the band was five girls. For a kid who loved music on the [...]
