Open up them Pearly Gates!

RIP Chuck Berry. Hearing Maybellene for the first time at the age of ten was a moment I still remember. It opened a door - and so much more came through there and keeps coming. Hail hail Chuck Berry!

- am not posting much personal stuff here anymore, mainly when I do at all it's on Facebook and, in this case, on Defuser Music dot com. - DC

Day Late Valentines Offering

Valentines 2017 for Katrinka

My Funny Valentine

Sung by Chisan Priscilla Storandt to Clayton Chadwick at Elin's and David's home next door to Sogenji in Okayama Japan 1990 or so.

RIP

Leon Russell, great songwriter and performer.

Masquerade

Wikipedia

Thanks Oklahoma.

Rip Bobby Vee

Sixties pop star Bobby Vee has died.

Read about the DC song that tells Scott Beach's true story about Vee's first big concert.

Song for our 1st Anniversary

Anniverse - sent to Katrinka in Sanur from Germany where I was on July 10th.

Whooptedo

A song done a week ago today with some friends here in Sanur. 

A Song for Castro

Written in high school about Fidel Castro to make fun of the prevalent knee-jerk anti-commie sentiment - in case one is inclined to take it literally - called Let's Castro Castro. Recorded in honor of his 90th birthday which was August 13th, 2016. - dc

Ben Gustin

Dharma Folk Songs - know Ben from the SFZC

Bouquet of Weeds sprouts again

Compassion Crew Presents: Compassion Cuts, Tapes, and Acetates, a record album of obscure oldies which includes "Bouquet of Weeds" from Music for a Comic Book Video, a record album of bizarre sampled stuff I released in 1985 and which still I hear about from time to time. There's a link to a page for that album from the above link on my music site, Defuser Music dot com where all my music can be heard for free - "the mediocre, the bad, and the terrible." - dc

New Song

Dua Nol Tiga (Two Oh Three) - in Indonesian and English

Welcome to the world Rosa.

Offerings

A song in Indonesian and English named Offerings (Persembahan Persembahan) which opens and closes with the canang sari, palm leaf offering in Bali, and includes a different type of local offering - intentional and destructive - and mythical figures galore.

Youtube video of Offerings 

Origin of this song

Rip Nancy Reagan

I think, according to what I read long ago, that the great thing Nancy Reagan did was to encourage her husband to deal  with Gorbachev to get the US and the Soviets to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons. As I read, she did so hoping he'd get a Nobel Peace Prize which I think was a good idea. But so much harm in other ways such as Nancy Reagan's role in the disastrous drug war.

First Bitch - a song from the Defuser archives

A Valentine Song for Katrinka

Katrinka be my Valentine

Also gave her a mango tart.

Found this photo of her on the Internet at a Google+ page. - dc

Happy Birthday Ben Patra

Happy Birthday Chef - a song for Ben's birthday last year, performed a year ago today in his honor at the late great Warung Annapurna.

Song and Video for Katrinka

Thinking of You - a song and video for Katrinka on my Youtube channel.

Bob Johnston and the IRS

Yesterday posted an RIP for Bob Johnston and said would write more today. My old Zenbook in the shop and getting a new one in order so not time for much, but here's something - the last paragraph (reproduced below) in a post about the IRS from May 21, 2013 called Cruel and Unusual Tax Collecting. Bob was having a heck of a time with the IRS early eighties so this was something to amuse him.-dc

Back in the early eighties I wrote and produced at home a song about the IRS dedicated to music producer Bob Johnston. It doesn't take the reserved tone of the above post. It's called, Pigfuckers.

Song for Our Wedding

A song page on my music site for Wedding Song - July 10, 2015 - with links to a so-so version on Youtube of me playing it at our reception dinner, to a clearer version that's just audio, words and chords.