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Guilty Pleasures: 70s Songs I Hate to Love

Here are mine – what are yours? 1. “Rock the Boat” (Hues Corporation) I played this song every night for four months in a Top Forty Funk band.  It was my favorite song of that gig, which says a lot about the wretched state of music in the mid-70s.  It’s catchy but sleazy, like a…


Interview with Producer of new Chicago Album

John Van Eps, longtime composer for the Manchester Music Library  has been working on a new project for the band Chicago.  You can here some of his music here. Luminous Muse – John, Tell me how you got involved with this project. John Van Eps – The band Maroon Five had done Latin versions of…


More More More! In Praise of Overproduction

Part 1 I get a lot of my ideas in the sauna. I go in there after my workout, which seems to do as much for my brain as my muscles, oxygenating synapses, clearing out some of the fog.  As the temperature passes 180, the heat melts things stuck in my subconscious and they float…


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