February 23,1998


My Times

I've been playing around with the Music pages and I hope I have made them a little bit easier to navigate.
If you follow the Solo Artist link it will take you to one of the cover ideas for my new album. There is also a new album index page where you can see the final song order and links to where you can hear Quicktime sound clips.
If you get a chance, please let me know your favourite song clip...

This time last year I was in New York feeling fantastic about our Grammy Nomination. Just being invited was enough.
My favourite everything of 1997 was OK Computer by Radiohead. Hands down!
Don't forget to check out the live WebCams for backstage interviews...

Music Links

I saw Lighthouse many times in the early 70's in Toronto. Bob McBride was a powerful frontman with a great voice in the original and classic Canadian band. He passed away after a long tragic battle.
His abundant talent wasn't enough to win the fight he had with drugs...


The last couple of weeks were a good example of a media frenzy not about sex!
Thank UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for having the balls to speak for his own organisation. It's a real change to see the Security Council actually allowing the UN to get involved in the name of Peace rather than the shame of War.
The new Secretary-General's message is we need to start working together to bring Iraq back into society.
I mean, Japan was forgiven by 1952...


At Ohio State the War leaders of the USA pretended to answer serious questions posed by handpicked supporters. When CNN decided to let one of the noise making protesters have a microphone we knew we were witnessing an historic moment in US democracy...Government controlled television.

Which leads nicely to CBS, who accidently sent a live broadcast of Dan Rather announcing the start of US airstrikes on Baghdad the other day. They claimed it was a rehearsal. According to many people who saw it, Rather had all the maps and super graphics of missles as well as live pictures of the attack. They mentioned the date as February 25 when Rather said he would return us to the Grammys!!!
A few people who saw the broadcast called their Stock Brokers and lost a lot of money...

For anyone who's counting, here is the original article as it appeared on the Washington Post web site on Saturday.
Just a few details have been removed in the archived story to make it easier to understand?


After Kofi returned to New York with what is being called the "great pre-war joke"(but who is playing the part of Chamberlain?), I personally heard the National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, say, on Monday, that he hopes that UNSCOM can get back to Iraq and inspecting the Weapons of Mass Destruction sites.
Remember this guy is Clinton's top adviser!
The reports that UNSCOM have been operating fully throughout this little attempt to boost the price of Oil stocks have not yet reached the National Security Advisor...

Meanwhile, the spokesman of the weapons inspection team, Alan Dacey, said experts on chemical, biological and nuclear weapons went out as usual to conduct their examinations of various non-controversial sites Sunday. He declined to say how many inspectors or how many teams were involved, but said, ``We have been operating every day since Nov. 22 of last year.''


"What's going to happen to the price of oil? How is this going to affect international you know, commerce and?
.. And how is this going to affect the economies of the world and? On and on and on."
Norman Schwarzkopf on questions from the first Intelligence Briefing at the White House the day Iraq invaded Kuwait1
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