MUSIC: This song is my personal addendum to Murphy’s Law. “Everything Takes Longer. Everything Costs More” is part of Lehndorff’s Law and the reason my design business is such a huge success. Oh, wait… But this song seems to be my mantra of the day. Love on the Line by Peter Lehndorff Peter Lehndorff: guitar, vocals Jeff Pevar: electric… Read more →
Tag: folk music
My Two Cents Worth
MUSIC: This is one of my favorite tunes to play on the guitar. I was given a basic book of jazz guitar chords when I was photographing the great bass player Carole Kay, and one of the first exercises was this progression. I kept playing it and words came to me. This version has me doing most everything including my… Read more →
The Band in the Attic: Mustang midi controller
MUSIC: I’m a guitarist. I really stink on the piano and have never had the money to get an actual keyboard to add other instruments to my tracks. So this was the next best thing. This is a video to demonstrate how I use a video game controller, The Rock Band Mustang Pro controller to build midi tracks like piano… Read more →
What goes around, comes around
MUSIC: This song was inspired, sort-of, by listening to a bunch of Mark Erelli songs. Mark is one of my favorite songwriters and I was fortunate enough to design his first two CDs on Signature Sounds. He tells stories with many of his songs and somehow it inspired me to come up with one of my own. This is one… Read more →
Rocky Road
MUSIC: This song is not about the ice cream flavor. The first version of this song I was exposed to was on one of Peter, Paul and Mary’s early albums. I was probably in the 8th grade and I remember loving the guitar part(s). I kept playing the song over and over with guitar in hand. Pick the needle up.… Read more →
Music Growing Up
LIFE: I am the curator of the Lehndorff family’s photographs. I’ve been scanning and trying to organize them. We were a pretty musical bunch, the Lehndorffs. Dad came over from Austria in 1938 with his cello. We had a string quartet that used to meet at our house in Fitchburg, MA. My dad loved it although he was the first… Read more →
Christmas @ YOUR house
Originally posted on OpenSalon.com March, 2011 MUSIC: I like Christmas as much as most people. I think. And I think the goal of keeping Christmas in our hearts the whole year round, is a nice touchy-feely goal. But do we have to keep Christmas ON our houses the whole year round? I know the winter was rough. Here in Western Massachusetts we were hammered… Read more →