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A Second Chance for “Second Chance”

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Ralf - “Your song ‘Second Chance’ sounds like a Huey Lewis & The News song. Did it start as a band project, or is it a true solo effort?”

”Second Chance” came to me as a rough demo from a friend of mine (possibly to pi...

17 days ago
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Fifty Years Later, I’m Finally a ‘Son’!

From Nicola Todd - “Are there any other Bay Area bands you wish you could have been a part of?”

Well, Nicola, funny you should ask here in 2026! When I started playing sax, I was heavily influenced by local ‘horn bands’ emerging in the Bay...

24 days ago
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Steve Cropper

Oh my . . . what a loss and what a gift to the music world . . . crossing the line between black and white when the idea was unfathomable. I think my fondest memory of Steve was during a day off with Huey Lewis and The News in Nashville, ha...

a year ago
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Cleto Escobedo

We lost one of the good ones yesterday. Every time HLN played Jimmy Kimmel’s show, sax man extraordinaire Cleto Escobedo Jr. treated me like Royalty. We played similar roles with our outfits, and because of that I’d like to think we had a l...

a year ago
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Remembering Sly Stone

From the Daily Republic…

“So I went to Sly’s place in Novato and hung out talking about KSOL, old times in Vallejo and Solano County and at the end of the night, after not having played one note, Sly said ‘John Colla, you’re in the group.’...

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