A few months ago TIME Magazine gave me a buzz to chat about Hazel's upcoming reunion performance at MusicFest NW here in Portland. Now that the hubbub is over I figured I'd post it, if for any other reason than to show my folks I was in a magazine they'd actually heard of...
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"As I was driving home from my gig tonight I passed a 'band van' with a trailer pulling out of the parking lot of one of the larger venues in SE Portland. It was a new Ford 350 towing an equally new matching cargo trailer. This got me thinking about a few things.
This wasn't a 'national act', I don't think. Probably just another band with another record out on another label from somewhere other than here. Maybe they were the greatest band in the world, but I wouldn't know about that because I'm old and out of the loop, and getting crotchety to boot. The driver, who looked like a bass player, was about 24. There were no stickers on the van, nor the trailer.
I've seen this same set-up in front of many, many clubs here in town on many, many night's drive home from this gig or that, nursing my beloved (but terminally ill) Volvo station wagon home on the rutted roads leading "North" and "East", like an old horse's memory carrying it's drunk, sleeping rider in the low moonlit… [Read More]
This wasn't a 'national act', I don't think. Probably just another band with another record out on another label from somewhere other than here. Maybe they were the greatest band in the world, but I wouldn't know about that because I'm old and out of the loop, and getting crotchety to boot. The driver, who looked like a bass player, was about 24. There were no stickers on the van, nor the trailer.
I've seen this same set-up in front of many, many clubs here in town on many, many night's drive home from this gig or that, nursing my beloved (but terminally ill) Volvo station wagon home on the rutted roads leading "North" and "East", like an old horse's memory carrying it's drunk, sleeping rider in the low moonlit… [Read More]
