Here are two iPhone videos from my Dec. 13, 2025 performance at the Cortland Coffeehouse Plus at the Unitarian Universalist Church. The videos were edited using my own video clips for audio (taken with my iPhone mounted on a tripod near the Bose PA speakers) and using the more frontal views taken by Susan Schwartz for the video. There is just a little audio enhancement in Logic Pro, mainly to even out some of the dynamics. I selected one video from the first guitar set and one from the second digital piano set. You can find all the studio versions and official YouTube videos on my music website. And also check out the original performance announcement with links to all the songs I performed.

Additional links to live videos from the performance: A Slow-Growing Cancer and Adorno’s Golden Gate

I’ve been pretty good about making music videos for all the songs I recorded with the band, Rollo, in the 1980s. All except for “After the Dance,” the B-side of Rollo’s 45 RPM vinyl record that we recorded in 1980. The reason for this was that some unknown person had somehow purchased the record and made a YouTube video of the song (with the video showing the record player playing the record, which I guess is or was a thing), so I was able to simply create a link to this person’s video.

I discovered recently, however, that this video is no longer public, so — 45 years after making the record — I finally got around to making an actual Rollo video for “After the Dance.” Nothing fancy, just the record sleeve showing the cover graphics and lyrics. But it’s a great song, written, and with a lead vocal, by Dan Smullyan. Recorded at A-1 Sound Studios in NYC in 1980 with real musicians: Kurt Ochshorn on guitar, monophonic synthesizer, and background vocals; Julius Braunschweig on Fender bass; Ira Grable on drums; me on polyphonic synthesizer, piano, and background vocals; and, as mentioned, Dan Smullyan doing the lead vocal. Enjoy!

To mark the seventh anniversary of my prostatectomy, I wrote and recorded a two-song cycle about my experience with prostate cancer. Both songs cover a lot of the same ground, but from slightly different perspectives.

I played all instruments (some real, some Logic Pro software instruments played live on my midi keyboard) and sang all vocals; I recorded the songs using Logic Pro X and edited the videos using Final Cut Pro.

All of my music and music videos are linked from my music homepage.

This is my cover of Madonna’s Papa Don’t Preach, written by Brian Elliot (although Madonna gets some songwriting credit as well). The song appears on her studio album, True Blue, from 1986.

My cover was recorded more or less live in one take, accompanied by electric piano, using Logic Pro X. I added some backup vocals, some additional Logic Pro software instruments (drums, bass, and organ), and some acoustic guitar. The underlying video was shot live and edited in Final Cut Pro. The other video that appears superimposed on my iMac incorporates excerpts from Madonna’s 1986 music video, directed by James Foley, and starring—in addition to Madonna—Danny Aiello as the father and Alex McArthur as the boyfriend mechanic.

For more of my original music and covers.

I jotted down the basic idea for this song in January, 2023, and started (and finished) writing it in July, 2025.

The song was recorded using Logic Pro X, and I made the video using Final Cut Pro. Find more song info on the song’s official homepage.

And find more links to all my music and writings.

I played three songs at the Center for the Arts of Homer open mic on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. Unfortunately, their beautiful theatre was being used for rehearsals, so the open mic took place in a more ordinary community room. Still, the audio was good, and it was nice to play some songs I hadn’t performed very often — especially my 2003 adaptation of Charlie Kaufman’s idea for his movie, “Adaptation.” For the record, I also sang “Walking in Circles” and “If I Could Sing Like That.”

Studio versions of all three songs (as well as all my other songs and music videos) can be found on my music homepage.

I’ve embedded the YouTube live performance video of “Adaptation” below (audio ‘enhanced’ using Logic Pro X). The video was shot by Susan Schwartz.

I went to the Nocturnal Cafe open mic in downtown Ithaca last Wednesday, and played three songs accompanied by my classical Goya guitar (my first guitar, purchased when I was 12 years old in 1964). It’s an interesting place — very low key, in part because they don’t have alcohol but rather serve things like elixers, expressos, CBD infusions, juices, tea blends, and kava. Here’s a song from the open mic that I wrote in 1980, called Just Another Bad Dream. The iPhone video was shot by Susan Schwartz and I “enhanced” the iPhone audio using Logic Pro X.

Check out the original “studio” recording of Just Another Bad Dream, as well as all the other songs and videos on my music homepage.