James O'Brien

It has been a long, long time since I last wrote a blog for my web site. The best of intentions count for very little, evidently. So much has happened since I last put pen to paper (this being neither…

Some years ago, don’t ask me how many, I was standing on the edge of the Great Wall of China with my dear friend Pat Butcher. If you’ve never been to the Great Wall, do it. It’s indescribable. The expanse…

Despite my best intentions, I don’t write these too often; but, it seems appropriate now, with venues re-opening and, as of last Thursday evening, our first gig! Yay! I say “our”, referencing the band with which I play, “Fat…

It's almost a year since I wrote Blog 1, so I thought the time was right for the follow-up. It's hard to believe, not to mention understand, all that has happened in the last 12 months. The world has changed,…

What do you call the first blog on your new web site? I've got no idea, so I called this one Blog 1. Keeping it real, as they say. The second thing you need for a first blog, after the…