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Audio Samples: Peart’s 1989 Freewheeling Conversation

SKF NOTE: Sometime this week I will post Part 1 of a conversation I had with Neil Peart on August 21, 1989. It may actually have been a two-day conversation. And to be as precise as possible, ours were several … Continue reading

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Morello – Concerto for Jazz Drums and Orchestra

SKF NOTE: Let me say upfront I do not own the copyright to this album track. If the copyright owner asks me to remove it, I will. Concerto for Jazz Drums and Orchestra is a brilliant performance by Joe Morello … Continue reading

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Reopening My Eyes and Ears

SKF NOTE: My friend, Jason, started a guitar player YouTube channel. As his schedule permits, Jason puts together a comprehensive video, a “how to play” the guitar part, on songs of his choosing. Recently, Jason’s posted a video guitar lesson … Continue reading

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Happy New Year!

SKF NOTE: Running my YTD blog stats this morning, visitors and views were up from 2022. Fourteen percent increase in visitors with a 22 percent hike in blog post views. That is, on average, every 2023 visitor looked at two … Continue reading

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Many Sides of Neil Peart

SKF NOTE: This is one of my favorite letters from Neil Peart. Written in October 1986 on his two-week old Macintosh computer, it captures many sides of Neil: the writer side, the techno side, the drumming side, the reader side, … Continue reading

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