Non-technical

Music with Robert Cedrone in Lexington – April 10

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

As I mentioned in the posting below, Robert Cedrone and I will be appearing again this Saturday at the Starbucks (map) that’s on the north side of Lexington, MA (not the one in the center of town!)  It’s only an hour, but if you feel like stopping by for some coffee and a little music, [...]

Three Gigs This Week

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

This weekend, Friday and Saturday April 2nd and 3rd, I will be playing bass with Rock City Band at two clubs north of Boston.

Gig alert: appearing with Robert Cedrone on Saturday, Dec. 5th

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Robert Cedrone and I will be appearing a week from today on December 5th at 7 PM at the Starbucks (map) that’s on the north side of Lexington, MA (not the one in the center of town!) Robert plays acoustic guitar and sings a mix of covers including Van Morrison, Al Green, Southside Johnny, Roy [...]

Gig alert: appearing with Robert Cedrone on Saturday, June 6

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

My good friend Robert Cedrone appears occasionally doing solo gigs north of Boston, and I often accompany him on bass.   This Saturday, June 6, we’ll be appearing for an hour starting at 7 PM at the Starbucks (map) that’s on the north side of Lexington, MA (not the one in the center of town!) Robert [...]

Comment Copyrights Redux

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

Early readers of this blog will remember that the original policy on comment copyrights caused some controversy.  You can read about that in the posting Copyrights and Comments and especially in the interesting comment thread that followed.  As promised, I took some time to think about it all, and to talk to some people whose [...]

Playing with the band

Monday, April 20th, 2009

We don’t get many recordings of Rock City Band, and as the substitute bass player I only play occasionally anyway.  Last month we did record of one of our club gigs, with me sitting in on a few songs.  For all you fans out there, a short mp3 clip is now up on the Arcane [...]

Remembering Wallace Stegner

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

A few weeks ago the New York Times published a nice rememberance of one of my favorite American authors, Wallace Stegner.  Angle of Repose is probably his most famous work, and it won the Pulitzer Prize, but many of his smaller books including Remembering Laughter and Crossing to Safety, are beautfully written too.

Copyrights and comments

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

After this blog went live I received a few comments on the copyright policy, and in particular on the fact that copyright on any comments that you post is transferred to me.  

Rock City Band…rocks!

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Congratulations to my friends in Rock City Band and their fantastic new vocalist Brenda White, who blew the roof off the Haluwa Restaurant in Nashua, NH last night!  Thanks too for having me sit in on bass for a few songs.  If you live north of Boston, check them out (schedule).

Welcome to Noah Mendelsohn’s Blog

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

It’s taken me a long time to put this blog on the air, but I’ve had a good time along the way learning about building WordPress themes that scale with window and font size, learning how to back up MySQL, how to move an existing blog to a new hosting provider,  how to use CSS [...]