Pepper’s DC-10 Dream, on stage in Chicago, April 9, 2013. Sharp-eyed viewers will spot the vintage Big Star t-shirt – doesn’t get much better than that. Thanks to The Seminary Co-op Bookstore and 57th Street Books for a great night in the big city. Rock.
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Pepperland live at Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap, Chicago…
Sunday, April 14th, 2013Pepperland, Side 1, track 1…
Sunday, April 14th, 2013Pepperland has 9 “sides”, like, you know, vinyl. We used to call ‘em records. Anyway, each side has “tracks” or episodes. Each Side has a musical theme that, in some way, expresses the feel of what’s going on. Side 1 is the Beach Boys’ Wouldn’t It Be Nice. Two smart, idealistic young people 1970 – Pepper […]
Pepperland – Live at The Tattered Cover – May 2013
Monday, January 21st, 2013Pepperland – my new novel, slated for a May 2013 release date, will shake, rattle and roll into Denver’s LoDo District with a live, in-person authorial appearance at one of the great American bookstores–The Tattered Cover. Can’t get much better than that. If you’re anywhere in the western third of these United States in late […]
Pepperland coming Spring 2013…
Thursday, October 18th, 2012News flash! Pepperland – the novel – will be published in the spring of 2013 by Running Meter Press, an imprint of Big Earth Publishing of Boulder, CO! Paperback and ebook. Let’s rock. Think the Ramones meet Jane Fonda meets Bill Gates. What? Pepperland is a noir love letter to the magic of music, the […]
Area man reads novel excerpt
Friday, February 5th, 2010So here’s a little bit of Pepperland, read on the evening of February 3, 2010 in Chicago at the Reading Under the Influence monthly session at the Sheffield. If you’re anywhere close to Chicago, you oughta go sometime. Pepperland is set in Chicago during the winter of 1974 and it’s about the intersection of rock […]
