Guy G. Gorman

Thanks to Sean Daniel and his very cool YouTube guitar learning channel I have learned to play “Malagueña.” (To be more accurate it’s probably a sort of Mal...

If you're a songwriter, it's even scarier than a shark. A writer (Was it Hemingway?) called it the great white monster, the blank page that is. I sometimes w...

Is Thoreau the godfather of popular music? He extolled the virtues of simplicity. (Do you think he used Occam's Razor when he shaved? :-D ) Thoreau even had...

I've recently been listening to Learning the Game (2017) by Hayden Thompson. His may not be a familiar name, but he's a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fam...

The elegant ballet dancer spins around and around and around and around with amazing speed, left arm out in front of her, bent at the elbow, leading the way,...

If you've ever felt cheated by media hoopla and/or reviews over some band or another, you'll probably see a musical connection to this blog. Donald Trump has...

Maybe I'm a little behind the curve on this (something on the order of a billion YouTube views), and I never expected to really have an opinion on it, but I ...

This isn't some diatribe against the evils of popular music. I love pop music. I even like the candy-coated confections that melt in your ear and disappear...

I recently became fascinated with North Sentinel Island. As a geography freak, I was surprised when I first heard of NSI. I thought egotistically that I ha...

The other day I was drumming along to my cassette version of "VU" by the Velvet Underground. It had been a long time. I was having a blast living in the mome...

I recently saw the movie "It All Begins with a Song" at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)* It investigates the experience of being a professio...

At University of Notre Dame I was one of about three people who liked Richard Hell and the Voidoids. I think the other two were just humoring me :-D . His ...

New ideas are hard to accept. Some interesting examples: Stan Lee's editor thought that Spiderman was a terrible idea for a super hero. Chester Carlson spent...

Life is great! It hasn't always gone as planned (assuming I had a plan :-D), but it has always turned out better than I could have ever imagined! That said,...

I came across this blog entry recently as I was rummaging through the dark recesses of my computer. Once again I'm reminded of how much I miss the old MySpa...

Rock n Roll has a special connection with enthusiasm. The whole punk rock movement at its best was about reclaiming enthusiasm's proper place in rock music....

We're fascinated with the idea of other worlds, other realities. A place where we aren't bound by the rules that so hinder us here. The popularity of scienc...

This is somewhat less than half of my record collection.  (That doesn't include CDs, cassettes [Yes, cassettes], 45s, 78s [Yes, those too], or mp3s. It's har...

I despised the Eagles back when I thought punk rock was going to save the world. I found their harmonies whiny. With the exception of "Life in the Fast Lan...

Life offers us so many opportunities. We (I) often turn them down with an answer that starts out something like, "No but..." A positive response to life's s...