JOHN BARTUS: GUITARIST STEVEN MILLER NEEDS OUR HELP
I first saw Steven Miller playing guitar in a nightclub in Islamorada some 30 years ago (or thereabouts). I had stopped in after playing a gig in...
JOHN BARTUS: HALL OF FAME SLIGHTS
Rolling Stone magazine co-founder Jann Wenner was recently booted from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors for comments he made recently while promoting...
JOHN BARTUS: TWENTY YEARS LATER, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE WEEKLY
2003 — twenty years ago. Seems like just yesterday … and yet it seems like two decades on. George W. Bush was president and the second Gulf...
JOHN BARTUS: REMEMBERING JIMMY BUFFETT
It was a shock last Saturday to wake up to the news of Jimmy Buffett’s passing. This year of 2023, which has seen the passing of way...
JOHN BARTUS: EVEN IN MODERN TIMES, LIVE MUSIC IS STILL SPECIAL
This really should be the Golden Age of Music. Recorded music is so easily available. Nearly any commercial recording is available online as a stream or a...
JOHN BARTUS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, USA
247 years ago, our Founding Fathers put their reputations and lives on the line — literally — when they signed the document that in effect charted the...
JOHN BARTUS: HOW A BLINKING SIGNAL IS THE KEY TO HAPPINESS
Alert Keys Disease readers will understand that this column may seem to veer dramatically from one topic to another at times; there almost always remains, however, a...
JOHN BARTUS: COMPLAINTS FROM ACROSS THE POND
I’ve always been partial to good British humor (humour?). I’m especially fond of the Monty Python stuff, particularly Monty Python and the Holy Grail (“Is that an...
JOHN BARTUS: A SMALL COLLECTION OF ANNOYING KEYS CRITTERS
Visitors to our islands (The Fabulous Florida Keys®) often notice that the various types of wildlife that inhabit these coral rocks are different from the species they...
JOHN BARTUS: BAD BEHAVIOR AT CONCERTS
At the risk of sounding like a grump, I’m going to relate a story that, sadly, happens all too often at concerts these days. Before that happens,...
