RALPH DARDEN INTERVIEWED FOR LOUD! FAST! PHILLY!

Joseph A. Gervasi continues his excellent interview series Loud! Fast! Philly! with a very candid conversation with Ralph Darden. There are no words that could describe Ralph’s importance in my life and the value, exploration, insight and humanity he brought to the experiences we shared together personally and creatively. This interview, however, reminds me that […]

OUR OWN 20 YEAR REUNION

Last night Ralph was in town. What I thought was going to be a casual dinner turned into this odd reunion of sorts. While the reunion aspect of the get together was only in hindsight, its significance wasn’t lost on me nor the others involved. Starting in the left hand corner of the photo we’ve […]

A POST HARDCORE BAND FROM PHILLY CALLED FRANKLIN

Is it really possible that I am already becoming forgetful on this blog? I mean, sure, it’s been over a year since I started posting stuff here, but looking in the “draft” file today, I found this. Apparently I meant to post it a while back yet, forgot to…duh. So, let’s get over on it… […]

THE TAZMANIANS – FINAL RECORDINGS

Today, we’ve got the rest of the recordings I have of The Tazmanians. The first post I put up about our songs targeted the music we had recorded over the summer of 1989. This final batch were all recorded at various times prior to The Tazmanians morphing into The Random Children somewhere in the spring […]

BANDS THAT TIME FORGOT: FRANKLIN BY SCOTT HEISEL

I accidentally stumbled across this article on AltPress.com yesterday, while looking for an image to use on the AM/FM post. This article was posted on August 28th, 2010 and frankly, it’s probably one of the nicest things ever written about Franklin. I’ve reprinted the article here, but you can check out the original at AltPress.com. […]