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The Case for Anonymous Web Posting

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Scott K Fish

Ask someone what bothers them most about internet web forums. They’re likely to answer, “Anonymous posters. People who post comments under fake names.” Recently, Dr. Brene Brown’s TED Talk on creativity and vulnerability prompted me to buy and read her … Continue reading →

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Touch Wood in a Japanese Forest with Bach

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Scott K Fish

I love everything about this. I love the percussion. I love the forest. I love the brains, heart, and creativity that figured out how to do this. I love that it is captured on film. Thank you.

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Max Roach: One Original Idea

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: I first saw Max Roach live in a Chicago jazz club with his quartet. Cecil Bridgewater (flugelhorn), Odean Pope (sax), and I can’t remember the bassist. Maybe it was Calvin Hill. I noticed a twentysomething guy sitting in … Continue reading →

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Selling My Record Albums, Except One

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Scott K Fish

As I write, a record dealer I’ve never met is combing through boxes of my lifelong collection of Long Playing (LP) records. About 2000 LP’s total. This morning I remembered one LP I want to keep. It is Mel Lewis’s … Continue reading →

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Do Drum Endorsements Sell Drums?

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: For a little while in the early 1980’s I was Northeast District Sales Manager for the Gretsch Musical Instrument Company, which was then based out of Tennessee. Karl Dustman was an executive with Gretsch at the time. Karl … Continue reading →

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