For over half a century, I have played, composed, performed and recorded songs and scores — and also studied the effects of music. — As my good friend and bass-virtuoso Randy Tico said to me yesterday: “People have been starving for music for a long time.” We agreed that what people hear in the world today is not music. It is a description of music. …

As perhaps a senseless waste of time I engaged in a thought recently: What if all the money and time that is spent on war, on designing and producing weapons, training and feeding armies — what if that was instead spent on ways to make deserts bloom, irradiate diseases, feed people and uplift the noble aspects of life on Earth? I know it…

To my brothers and sisters who play music: — After 50 years of performing and sound-engineering I have just one thing to say about digital mixers for live sound: DON’T USE THEM. Life is analogue and the beautiful sounds we make suffer in clarity and detail when we use digital mixers. The more complex the sound, the more instruments…

About Love which has been the subject in the previous articles there is something called TRUST Trust plays a big role in a loving relationship. If it breaks, it becomes like when you drop a cup on the floor and you try to glue the pieces together, it is not…

Again on the search for happiness. The ship is ready for its next adventure. It goes out into another rough Sea with prayers and will to find a better path — a better relationship. After a while we are back in the harbor, but the anchor has been broken and…

Unfortunately, DIVORCE becomes a part of many lives. Many of our divorces today are due to our expectations. We feel we deserve, and if it is not met in accordance with our imagination as to what we deserve, we leave. …

We are building our own prisons and walking into them freely. — Systems regulate behavior, organize tasks and control information — a useful function until they reach a certain size. Today the most powerful systems of the world are linking up and becoming centralized. Presidents, leaders, CEOs, Billionaires come and go within any system, while it keeps growing and gains more control…

We can’t run after Love hoping to catch it. Love will connect with us, if we have an open heart, open mind with Love in ourselves. In real love there is no strong Ego. There is an understanding a sharing. When we can Love without conditions — we are free. …

How did we get to where so little has any meaning? — After the “Great Generation” (my parents) came the “Baby Boomers” and they got more public attention than any generation before it. In Western Europe and the USA, starting in the 1960s there was the “revolution” — protests against the war in Vietnam and a general rejection of many traditions. …