THE MUSE PATROL

By Dale Nickey: The Dodgers, The Hollywood Sign, The Capitol Records Building, Canter’s Deli… Certain things in your life are there and always have been there. Received L.A. culture. You don’t know when you first became aware of iconic places and people; they are simply the landscape of your life. So it is with Angelyne.…

Dale Nickey:   Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. Adam Rado passed on passed on March 15, 2021. He was many things. Composer, Educator, Husband, Athlete and Enlightened Atheist. He was also my best friend and the man I considered my brother. I met Adam at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa…

Atascadero If you’re looking for a patch of deep red in the ocean of blue that is California, the town of Atascadero is your place. Texas without the twang. Cowboy boots, Trump regalia, utilitarian architecture, and churches as ubiquitous as Starbucks. Diversity comes by way of “Larry Elder for Governor” signage on front lawns and…

Directed by Edgar Wright Theatrical release June 18th Reviewed by Dale Nickey: Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 6/22/21 – Sometimes incongruity is nice. This was my first time out to a movie with the missus since the attack of the Covid Monster. So, we trekked out on Father’s Day to an empty theater in…

Remembering Dean Ford (1945-2018) Leader of The Marmalade By Dale Nickey (The Hollywood Times) 1/14/19 – New Year’s Eve past me and the missus were watching the telly waiting for the ball to drop. Out of the blue, apropos of nothing, I wondered out loud who would be the first Rock Star to leave us in…

Reviewed by Dale Nickey: David Lewis – Among Friends Wow Records – Release Date 6/25/20 Nice to listen to music without context sometimes. My first scan of this music suggested a very young, precocious artist. The second coming of Aztec Camera’s Roddy Frame perhaps. Lyrics ahead of the artist’s years; a gentle, youthful voice offering…

Authored by Dale Nickey:  New Orleans Monday – Corwood Industries (0822) Audio CD (2016) Originally reviewed in 2016 Jandek Revisits “Ghost Passing” Jandek has just released his newest work “New Orleans Monday”. This is a recorded live performance on CD. It will also see release on DVD relatively soon.  Jandek breaks with tradition here and…

Pink Floyd (Piper At The Gates Of Dawn) : Gee, I wonder where The Beatles dreamed up all the weird and wonderful ideas that gave us Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane? I guess it was just a coincidence that Pink Floyd was recording their first album just down the hall at the same time The…

The Clash – “I Fought The Law“ “I Fought The Law” was originally a bracing but unthreatening rebel squawk by The Bobby Fuller Four (composed by Sonny Curtis). The Clash sunk their rotting teeth into it and made it belch flames. The guitars squalled, the drums thundered and Joe Strummer’s sandpaper n’ Drano rasp gave…

By Dale Nickey: He Returns… (LOS ANGELES, CA – August 5, 2016) – Nestled in the outer frontier of Downtown L.A.’s ever expanding tent community is The Bootleg Theater – a funky but chic performance complex that houses both a first rate community playhouse and a concert hall. On Beverly near Alvarado; this was the chosen site of Jandek’s…