MY LIFE written May-November 1999 by Ray Dean James With italicized contributions in RED by Ric Hickey in Sept-Oct 2021 When my Dad got...

Cheap Trick’s self titled debut album was released in February 1977. Before cutting their first record, reputedly armed with a repertoire...

This was a great night for a couple of reasons. I had been dating this hypocritical narcissistic cheating woman who shall remain nameless...

Sunday November 9, 1986 was the first time I saw Robyn Hitchcock in concert. He played at Bogart's and at the time I was already a huge...

A Rough Draft Outline for a Screenplay by Ric Hickey and Chris Wanstrath * (The authors recommend you play the attached YouTube links...

I came up with this riff in drop-D tuning on my Dad's old Martin acoustic guitar when I was living in San Diego back in 2012. I was...

January 3, 1985 I saw Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson emerge from a taxi behind the Cincinnati Gardens dressed uncannily like...

What the hell we were doing up on the roof in the first place, I don’t know. But we had a small folding table, several lawn chairs, a...

March 18, 1986 – I met Mike Peters and a couple other guys from the Alarm one afternoon 30 years ago. They stopped by Record Bar in...

We three go where we three go, Even if it's uphill both ways. Walkin' barefoot backward in the snow, We three go where we three go....

My old friend Russell and I saw Bob Dylan open for the Grateful Dead at Giants Stadium back in June of 1995. Living in the East Village...

Maybe we are just monkeys and after 700 years with 700 typewriters one of us turned out to be Shakespeare. Every possible universe is an...

My old band Sparrow Bellows had an outdoor gig that was rained out in October 2012. Sitting by myself that evening in the basement bar of...

This is an excerpt from a much longer piece in progress called The Timeline Project, essentially a detailed year-by-year list of concerts...

A Self Improvement and Soul Preservation Course Embedded in the Iconography and Symbology in the Lyrics of 14 Songs by Iggy Pop All...

Vivid still and crystal clear as if it were only yesterday, a random memory from childhood returned to me recently: My Dad once took me...

My grandfather Malcolm was a farmer. He was born and raised in rural Statesville, Tennessee (about 70 miles east of Nashville), where he...

A look back at the state of affairs in Black Sabbath in the late 80s, as seen through the lens of comic realism.* It's only Iommi It's...

There never was any doubt I would be going out the same way my dad had and his dad had too. I would slowly lose my mind and have no idea...

Pissed and Pious sitting on a fence, Pious fell off and they became friends. Pissed was he who helped up Pious. Friends like these money...