G's Free Thoughts

AIG is infamous for receiving $180 billion of Federal bailout money during the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009.  I have read that the...

After almost five decades of making New Year's resolutions, I have decided to take a different approach this year.  I am going to mak...

Like everyone else in America, I have been horrified and saddened by the mass murder of innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Conn...

The older  trumpet player with the beard in the midst of a teenage trumpet section is Tony Caviglia. Mr. Caviglia is a graduate of Julli...

It isn't the end of the year yet, but I had a birthday recently.  This puts me in looking back/looking forward mode, sometimes.  The ...

The Jazz Showcase is a venerable jazz club in Chicago.  Joe Segal opened the place in 1947, and it is allegedly the second oldest continu...

Nibra White is a friend of mine.  He works at the McGaw YMCA in Evanston as a coach and personal trainer.  Among his other activitie...

In this political season, it is good to unplug and go on a road trip into one of the less celebrated areas of our nation. One of the thin...

The  voice was the humankind's first musical instrument.  Voices and hands beating a rhythm were the components of our first musical com...

Back in the late sixties and early seventies, I was a punk teenager with a bad attitude and really bad hair.  One of my running buddies w...

When I first arrived in Evanston IL to attend graduate school at Northwestern, I was amazed by a strange reality.  It was 1976, and Eva...

I was pretty excited when I saw a poster at the used record store in Evanston - Curtis Salgado was coming to my suburb, playing at SPACE ...

Sharon Jones is not a kid.  She is a full-grown woman, a Baby Boomer born in Augusta GA but raised in the Apple, New Yawk New Yawk. As a ...

On Friday morning, I got up before 5AM, put on my bike riding clothes and headed out to the garage to jump on my Cannondale for an hour-l...

Tomorrow is Independence Day in the US of A.  As I walked the rat dog this evening, I could hear fireworks exploding in the middle distan...

Bipolar disorder is an illness that can be successfully treated if the sufferer "takes ownership" of his/her condition and reso...

I have had a great baseball week.  On Monday, my wonderful son-in-law took me to the Crosstown Classic, Cubs vs White Sox at U.S. Cellula...

I still can't believe the impact of technology on music. I am a non-techie; it all seems like musical magic to me.   I am reaching th...

Back when I was fronting the Mystery Band, I walked into Duke's Bar in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, hoping to get a gig. I m...

This showed up in my e-mail; perhaps it has already been blasted around the Web. I found it to be worth reading... "Reflections on Pea...