It’s All About the Rhythm..

by | May 2, 2012 | Welcome Column

When I played rock and roll, I was a primarily a lead guitar player. I had an amp that stacked so high, I could hardly reach the knobs, and I could pull them strings all over the place and make that axe wail. I was fleet fingered, and I had luxuriously long hair. In...

It’s All Jazz

by | May 8, 2020 | Welcome Column

I’ve been watching the HBO series Treme with interest and enjoyment as it follows a group of seemingly doomed characters through the trials and troubles of life in the lower seventh ward in New Orleans six months after hurricane Katrina. Of particular interest to me...

It’s All Music

by | Jan 4, 2018 | Welcome Column

Bless me, Bill (Lester, Earl, Jimmy, Ralph, Carter) for I have sinned (and keep sinning for that matter.) My grandson is just over two years old and every time I see him I give him a musical instrument. I don’t see him nearly often enough but in his two years, I given...

It’s ALL Politics

by | May 13, 2009 | Welcome Column

Once upon a time I was part of a three person startup company. We worked like hell, and eventually, things got prosperous enough that we needed to hire someone. So, we did, and it was good. Then, things got more prosperous, and we hired another person. And there was...

It’s Cold

by | Nov 24, 2003 | Welcome Column

Today’s one of my two-days-per-week consulting days, and here in my Stockton office I can see steam when I exhale. That’s how cold it is. Obviously a problem with the boiler again. I’m wearing a sweater, a sweatshirt and a heavy leather jacket and yet my teeth are...

It’s great to resonate!

by | Sep 1, 2010 | Welcome Column

Today’s column from Bruce Campbell Wednesday, September 1, 2010 If you play music often enough, with enough different people, you will discover that there are some folks who seem to bring out the best in your playing, or your singing, or both. It happens to...

It’s Like Breathing

by | Nov 20, 2019 | Welcome Column

Playing music has been a part of my life for 50+ years, and I have been lucky enough to arrange things so I get to do it pretty darn often. Every now and then, though, there’s a lull. Usually, it’s brought on by random accidents of events and scheduling – I may...

It’s Nearly Spring in Sebastopol

by | Mar 2, 2011 | Welcome Column

Hey, just a little more than a week to this year’s Sonoma Bluegrass and Folk Festival (March 12). This will be the 11th edition of this event, and it’s a fine kickoff to festival season. I have a lot of fine memories of this festival, and I look forward to it every...

It’s Not Pop

by | Sep 30, 2019 | Welcome Column

Why do we gravitate to certain kinds of music and not to others? I love bluegrass and old time music but my wife hates it. I used to listen to pop music like everybody else but these days if I have to answer a crossword puzzle entry with the letters adele or brunomars...