Yup, Mike Luno Band has been around for twenty years now. We weren't called MLB when we started, and we were a four-piece with a different lead singer and bassist for the first few years, but the sound, the philosophy…

Chris Squire, David Bowie, Prince. 

It's been a hell of a year. 

To say these artists were musically influential on a global scale seems like an understatement.

On a personal level, all were artists I listened to a…

I have the pleasure of teaching a course in public high school these days called Rock School. About 25 students between the ages of 14 and 18, with widely varying levels of experience in formal music training as well as…

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes" – attributed (uncertainly) to Mark Twain 

Back in the Spring of '84, I had the pleasure of seeing Rush live in Vancouver on their Grace Under Pressure tour. A sense of…

I had the pleasure of reuniting recently with a bandmate from my university days. Twenty-five years had passed with zero contact between us; not because there was any bad blood, but because work and the domestic scene took him far…

The Blues lost one of its most enduring and long-serving masters this month. At 89 years of age, B.B. King had not only outlasted virtually all his contemporaries, but was one of the very few Blues artists who could claim…

A while back, I wrote a blog about Miley Cyrus, her 'scandalous' performance at the MTV Music Awards and the resulting publicity - culminating with her face on the cover of Rolling Stone…

It's been a little longer than usual between blog posts here, as you might have noticed. It isn't so much that I've been too busy to write for the last six months or so, but it's been more of a…

Many months ago, in my early days of working with MLB bassist Jason Nickel, I was chatting with him about his many other musical projects. When he mentioned he wrote some original music, I was especially intrigued – a guy…