You've reached A Lonely Howl, online home of the various music-related writings of Dan Cullity. Most of the reviews found here can also be found on Earpollution, a completely non-commercial music e-zine based in Seattle and serving thousands of music fans worldwide. There is also some writing culled from brief stints with Jambands and Musictoday, as well as from an early and quite raw incarnation of this very site. Enjoy!
"Music should never be harmless." - Robbie Robertson
"My vocation is more in composition really than anything else--building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army." - Jimmy Page
"When I'm really writing, really playing, I'm not thinking at all. I'm just there, feeling it, and in it. That's what I want; I'll do anything to get that." - Neil Young
"A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children." - Ian Anderson
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." - Frank Zappa
"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do." - Jimi Hendrix
"When I was fifteen, I fell madly in love with rock and roll. Chuck Berry was happening big. But I really liked… the guys that played guitar good." - Jerry Garcia
"Our rehearsals consisted a lot of sitting around and playing, improvising. Gregg would have a song with chords. We’d forget about the song and just play off two or three chords and just let things kind of happen." - Dickey Betts
"When I wrote the first five or six hit songs for The Who, I was completely and totally alone. I had no girlfriend, no friends, no nothing – it was me addressing the world. That’s where the power of that early stuff comes from." - Pete Townshend
"I always like the wilder guys. I liked Buddy Guy, Freddie King and Otis Rush because they sounded like they were really on the edge, like they were barely in control and at any time they could hit a really bad note and the whole thing would fall apart – but, of course, they didn't." – Eric Clapton
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