Categories: "BFMN Exclusive"
The Front Man (Tectonic Shift, Part 2 of 3)
06/17/11 06:02, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: bebop, cover bands, fiction, front man, john coltrane, paul bourgeois, root note, the blue monsters, thelonious monk
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
Max plugged his mic into his Yamaha JX 15 guitar amp. He shifted between harp and vocals with a cheap Behringer distortion pedal. It wasn’t great but it was all he could afford, and if he pulled back on the bass… more »
The Front Man (Hurt in a Bottle, Part 1 of 3)
06/06/11 01:20, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: barefootmusicnews, front man, johnny cash, nine inch nails, paul bourgeois, singer, trent reznor
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
He sweated under the spotlights. The guitar shifted into the extro and he closed his eyes and screamed out all his rage into what he thought was an empty pub. His knees shook from the energy and he cupped the… more »
Raindrops
05/30/11 16:11, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: composition, fiction, glenn gould, music, ornette coleman, paul bourgeois, pianist, piano, raindrops, savant, schostakovich, time signatures
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
He couldn’t sleep. The rain pounded on the windows, a low irregular drumbeat. He began to hear his own breathing and the click-chink of the radiator. There was no pattern, but his mind couldn’t let them… more »
Lies Are More Honest than Truth
05/23/11 01:03, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: barefootmusicnews, beatles, blues, fiction, jazz, julian lennon, kathmandu, lies, lucy in the sky with diamonds, media, music, news, paul bourgeois, stories, trumpet, truth
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
It sounds weird, doesn’t it? But it is easier to tell the truth about stuff if you are making it up. Otherwise you have to contend with permission forms and people saying “I don’t want my story… more »
A Trumpet Player in Kathmandu (The Runner, Part 4 of 4)
05/16/11 06:37, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: ashram, charlie parker, coltrane, fiction, jazz, kathmandu, miles davis, music, paul bourgeois, trumpet
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
India gained independence in 1947, a triumph of passive resistance, the same year Pete Seeger published “We Shall Overcome.” And in 1989, when I was in the Banwasi Seva Ashram, “We Shall… more »
First Annual Welcome to Rockville Festival Sizzles in Jacksonville
05/13/11 23:09, by wakitu, Categories: Music News, Festivals and Events, BFMN Exclusive, Jim Messer, Review , Tags: festival, godsmack, halestorm, jim messer, metropolitan park, puddle of mudd, rev theory, seether, stone sour, welcome to rockville
Photos and Review by Jim Messer
Sunday, May 8, was a little more than Mother’s Day. It brought the very first “Welcome to Rockville” festival to Metropolitan Park in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. It was hot… in several… more »
A Trumpet Player in Kathmandu (Kathmandu Jam, Part 3 of 4)
05/09/11 03:48, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: charlie parker, coltrane, fiction, jazz, kathmandu, miles davis, music, paul bourgeois, trumpet
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
(In the previous episode the main character had searched for Joe Townsend, the mysterious trumpet player in Kathmandu, but in the end it is Joe who finds him.)
I looked at the old man, Joe Townsend, standing between… more »
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