The George Floyd Protests Aftermath. Los Angeles. May 31, 2020.

May 31st, 2024 § Comments Off on The George Floyd Protests Aftermath. Los Angeles. May 31, 2020. § permalink

“Meet you at 3rd and Fairfax”!

I heard the protest coming along 3rd street. I jumped on my bicycle and headed towards them only to find people with bats and knives and police with bats and guns committing some serious violence against each other which frightened me to death and I raced home! All night the pops and bangs and helicopters and sirens rang on and on like in a war zone! Crazy scary!

The photos in the video were taken the next morning.

I awoke to complete silence and empty streets. I grabbed my bike and rode around and took snaps. Later the California National Guard and the cleanup crews arrived to clean everything up and erase any memory of the night!

The song “Dear John” was written as a letter to John Lennon in December 1999. I was working with Mick Fleetwood on a project where I had his drum stem and it inspired me to write the music. The words are a letter to John.

The Aftermath of the George Floyd Protests at 3rd & Fairfax, Los Angeles, May 2020.

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Have we been wasting our lives on Social Media?

May 18th, 2024 § Comments Off on Have we been wasting our lives on Social Media? § permalink

@Facebook has been around longer than the most inventive years in Popular Music History, which might have been between “A Hard Day’s Night” by the Beatles in 1964 and “Owner of a Lonely Heart” by Yes in 1984!
Have we been wasting our lives on Social Media?