This Week In Music & Shopping History

Union Square. 14th Street. Outdoor Xmas Market.

New York City & the holiday season. Let's not kid ourselves. We're not shopping for gifts for our "special someone". We're not running out of the apartment with anticipation of finding that fantastic "thingy" for grandma. HELL NO... I'm looking for stuff for #1. I'm out to find ME a present! What is it that I can't live without. What other piece of kitschy kitsch can I cram into my little studio? Maybe if I buy this gorgeous necklace for my Dad, he'll realize that blue isn't his color and then I can keep it for myself?

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THIS WEEK IN MUSIC HISTORY

1972, Carly Simon released "You're So Vain", a song which sets the whole country to wondering exactly who is so insufferably vain... Ironic how this is the week I started my blog!?!

1976, the Sex Pistols' Glenn Matlock used the F word during an English TV interview and the resulting uproar proves that the Brits can be every bit as priggish and sanctimonious as the Yanks ... most of the Pistols' upcoming gigs are cancelled and by the next month they can't book a date anywhere in the U.K.... Hummm, my new upcoming CD features a new tune entitled, "FUCK IT". We've also recorded the alternate version entitled "STUFF IT" for the family audience. Maybe there's hope for me yet.

1986, Annie Lennox, lead singer for the Eurythmics, got so carried away at a concert in Birmingham, England that she rips off her bra, which is the only thing covering her breasts ... this does not cause a national scandal... (You go girl!)

I'm now officially procrastinating. I'm rehearsing tonight with my good friends, UNCLE MOON, who I'm performing with late Saturday night at the Living Room in NYC. It's time to go off and practice. One of the tunes they've chosen is NUAGE. and because of this, I'd like to leave you with a moment of silence to one of my all time idols, French Jazz Violinist Stephane Grappelli who died December 1st, 1997 at AGE 89...

When asked on his 85th birthday if he was considering retirement, Grappelli replied: "Retirement! There isn't a word that is more painful to my ears. Music keeps me going. It has given me everything. It's my fountain of youth." ...These words should be inspiration to all of us...