http://skafishblog.skafish.com Skafish speaks... in his own words - raw and uncensored... Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:47:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I remember the late great James Brown proclaiming back in the 1970’s, “Just make sure to spell my name right!”  What the Godfather of soul was asking for was that his name would be spelled correctly in the media in reference to an utterly idiotic rumor that was being spread ... http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/06/28/just-spell-my-name-right-is-all-press-really-good-press/ On Friday, April 18 2008, Glinda Harrison, was emailing the Chicago Sun Times back and forth all afternoon.  Weeks ago, the paper had offered to do a feature story on me and my new CD:  “What’s This? 1976-1979,” which was released April 1, 2008.  I had an extensive and very ... http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/05/19/hindsight-isn%e2%80%99t-20-20-%e2%80%93-it-might-need-bifocals%e2%80%a6/ The Chicago Sun Times did an article on Skafish and What’s This? 1976 – 1979, the new CD.  You can read the article here: http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/898506,sound041708.article I am currently writing a blog entry that includes some thoughts about the story. http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/04/25/skafish-story-in-the-chicago-sun-times/ There is a new article in this week’s edition of Time Out Chicago on the new CD, What’s This?  1976 – 1979.  You can read the article online at: http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/music/28152/extreme-behavior http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/04/02/new-article-in-time-out-chicago-on-whats-this-cd/ The new SKAFISH CD, What’s This? 1976-1979 is officially released today, April 1, 2008. I remember when someone emailed me weeks ago on My Space and asked me if this new release just might be my little diabolical April Fool’s Joke! I sent back a strong no, no, no -- ... http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/03/31/no-april-fools-joke-here/ The music business is a most certainly complex and dirty business, to say the least and as time has gone on, it has gotten far worse and harder to navigate through. With illegal downloading being estimated by industry experts to be four times the amount of legal downloading, most artists ... http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/03/21/it%e2%80%99s-mine-and-you-can%e2%80%99t-have-it/ When most composers write songs, they rarely write lyrics that are stated as literal prose.  Imagine if the following were the words to a new hit single: “I was walking down the street and happened to meet up with John who I had a conversation with.  John said, “Hello fella, ... http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/03/08/jimmy-did-you-really-push-joan-down-the-stairs/ Most musical artists who become famous almost always “hit it big” when they’re young – very young in fact. Very seldom do we see someone breaking big as a popular artist in their 40’s, 50’s or beyond. It is such a paradox that becoming famous at a young age occurs ... http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/02/24/so-you%e2%80%99re-young-and-you-wanna-be-famous-huh/ When Glinda Harrison, the vice president for my new record company, 829 Records, was making a one sheet for radio, (a one page description that goes out to radio stations detailing a new release) for my new CD What’s This? 1976-1979, she ran into a little problem. In going over ... http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/02/17/bleeped-again/ As the first Chicago artist ever to play the legendary CBGB’s in New York on April 12th and 13th 1977, my band and I were excited to first bring Chicago punk to New York.  At the time, we were all between the ages of 17 and 20 with the only ... http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/02/10/how-i-ended-up-in-the-grocery-store-with-joey-ramone/