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		<title>Music is an Art Form Whose Medium is Sound</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So begins the Wikipedia entry for music. Seems so simple. And yet, what does that mean? Sound. Airwaves manipulated so that they make our ears hear things. How can sound be compelling? Or offensive? Or completely uninteresting?  It&#8217;s just sound. When I first started making music, real music, original music, it was all about immediacy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ain&#8217;t That America: Enid, OK</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oklahoma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a street in Enid, OK called Roman Nose Drive. I find this both amusing and fascinating. Street name etymology is a curious thing. From the obvious Elm, Oak, and Maple Streets, to the usually evident John or Jane Smith Ways, the general consistency of street names is often notable to me as I travel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Was 20 Years Ago Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer 1990. I was working at the mid-grade Italian restaurant Bel Canto. A good summer job that had become full-time after I decided to drop out of school.  It was always sunny and bright in the main dining room and I clearly remember standing at the doorway between the side alcove tables and the kitchen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: Evil Urges, by My Morning Jacket</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re going to see My Morning Jacket at the Greek this week and I&#8217;m pretty freakin&#8217; psyched.  In Minneapolis, on one of the first tours I did with Matt Nathanson, MMJ played in another room in the same venue as us.  I hadn&#8217;t heard much of their stuff but when we snuck over to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: Twilight Zone, by Golden Earring</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been paying attention, you will know that I am an absurdly obsessive (Rod Serling&#8217;s) The Twilight Zone fan.  But as a youngster, just slightly before I was truly introduced to the show (thanks to late-night two-fers on KCBS when I was in college), this song crossed my radar.  It was just rock enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Music Part III: My Cricket &amp; Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Read Part I &#38;/or Part II] Serves me right that I&#8217;m playing my first solo show in many years and then things really start to heat up in the studio. But in no way is that a bad thing.  I spent last weekend tracking guitars for the Matt MacKelcan record I&#8217;m producing and the last half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Music, Part II: Muy Bueno Backstory</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve mentioned before that this solo show is the first I’ve done in many, many years, despite my constant &#8211; and in many ways &#8211; increased involvement with music in the same span.  Here, in brief, is the reason: When, in my teens, I first played club shows in Boston, I was all agog at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright: SotW / Behind the Music, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I started in to my first T.C. Boyle novel, The Women. In brief, it&#8217;s a fictionalized account of his relationships with, primarily, his three wives. Beyond that I won&#8217;t give you a book report, because what struck me initially was the introduction, in which our memoirist, a Wright apprentice, tells of his journey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: Rock &amp; Roll Suicide, by David Bowie</title>
		<link>http://aarontap.com/?p=1158</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite my mild pedestal-knocking of the Thin White Duke a few months ago, I am an unabashed David Bowie fan, especially his Space Oddity and Ziggy Stardust periods.  Bowie was smack in the middle of a wild, brief, and transitory moment in rock and roll, namely the glam movement and now more or less embodies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Nights</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the first day of summer and I can only vaguely recall the hyper thrill of stashing my schoolbooks and settling in for a nearly three month break from almost any kind of schedule. I wasn&#8217;t much of a summer camp kid, aside from a few notable exceptions (Basketball camp? Whose fucking idea was that? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: Tomorrow Tomorrow, by The Bee Gees</title>
		<link>http://aarontap.com/?p=1111</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shame. Shame on me for this being my first Bee Gees Song of the Week. What the hell has been wrong with me all these years? I am an unabashed superfan. PK and I have a ridiculous collection of LPs (mono &#38; stereo releases, foreign oddities, 7&#8243; singles, etc.) and even now, as I try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: Once Is Enough, by Aerosmith</title>
		<link>http://aarontap.com/?p=1091</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Glimmer Twins to the Toxic Twins, but this time the circumstances are reversed.  Last time I featured a blistering cover of a Stones song whereas this time I&#8217;ll be featuring Aerosmith delivering a pitch-perfect country rock version of a song written by Richard Supa. Long before they hooked up with ballad mongers Diane Warren [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: C***sucker Blues, by Beasts of Bourbon</title>
		<link>http://aarontap.com/?p=1086</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 06:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes fate steps in.  A couple weeks back, Matt was in L.A. working on songs for the new album.  I had heard that Amoeba was having a garage sale, supposedly focusing on major deals on vinyl so I suggested Matt meet me there for a major dive-in.  On first arrival, the place seemed a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: Kings of the Wild Frontier, by Adam &amp; the Ants</title>
		<link>http://aarontap.com/?p=1078</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 18:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a particularly difficult half of sophomore year at USC, I dropped out of college. The music education I had been receiving was challenging, inspiring, and led to some solid friendships that still remain rewarding, but the environment was not for me.  So I left, headed back to Boston, got an apartment on Commonwealth Ave. in Allston, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: Stand or Fall, by The Fixx</title>
		<link>http://aarontap.com/?p=1068</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 07:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gateway drugs. Not the best thing in the literal sense but when it comes to music it&#8217;s been the gateway drugs that have left the most indelible imprints.  I remember &#8220;Stand or Fall&#8221; from the early days of MTV. Early for me, anyway.  My family was a bit late on the cable trend, but it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like A Lion</title>
		<link>http://aarontap.com/?p=1053</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March was a month of extremes.  From playing at Carnegie Hall to starting sessions for the new Matt Nathanson record; to flying to the East Coast for shows with Laurie Geltman to, finally, settling in Charleston, SC for a week to begin work on a long-planned recording with another Matt, Matt MacKelcan.  It’s been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: A Thing Called Love, by Elvis Presley</title>
		<link>http://aarontap.com/?p=1045</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that before the commoditization of dead Elvis, his gospel records were his biggest sellers. Somewhat less known is that the King, who had been captivated by the very prevalent gospel quartets of the South since his youth, had always aspired to be the bass singer. Poor fella, he was cursed with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week(end): The Sicilian Clan, by Morricone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Il Clan Dei Siciliani&#8221; was one of the first non-spaghetti-western Ennio Morricone themes that really grabbed me.  Its main melody is simply perfect &#8211; with characteristic Morricone originality employing a &#8220;boing&#8221; sound to great effect &#8211; and the variations he develops through the score are subtly brilliant.  Perhaps not surprisingly, as perfectly as he captured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: I Think It&#8217;s Gonna Rain Today, by Peter Gabriel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another rainy day in Los Angeles, and here&#8217;s a sort of a SotW encore: another version of this great song.  Still doesn&#8217;t touch Dusty&#8217;s version, but it&#8217;s a solid rendition, at minimum. Sadly, I found the rest of the record to be a bit of a snooze, but here&#8217;s a solid two minutes thirty-four for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leftovers Have Never Had It So Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was in Charleston last week, working on some new recordings with Matt MacKelcan, and on our one day off Matt and his kickass lady showed me around the downtown. There was a lot of hullabaloo due to the fact that there had been a major running event that morning, but we managed to navigate [...]]]></description>
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