Posts by mheff

Hi Folks I recently posed this question to ChatGPT. For those who don’t know, ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot.  “My car needs to be washed. The car wash is 200 yards from my home. Should I walk or drive?” This was the AI reply: For a car wash that’s only about 200 yards (roughly 180…

Hi FolksI just got home from a grueling trip. Last Wednesday we were once again required to travel to the US. There were three shows that we owed the people of Maine and Connecticut. I’m not making a political statement, it’s always been this way to a degree, but going to the US is like visiting…

Hi FolksYou might recall a recent post I wrote about The Bill Bell Band. I saw them at a club in Port Credit a few weeks ago. Bill, of course, is also the lead guitarist with The Lightfoot Band.After the rave review I gave them, I mentioned that they sounded amazingly full for a trio….. but…

What Could They Possibly Be Thinking? Here’s a strange phenomenon. A lot of my musician friends (and a family member) have moved north. The Georgian Bay horseshoe from Owen Sound to Wasaga Beach seems to be the current retirement area of choice for a lot of people, not just musicians.I get that it offers a less…

Hey EveryoneI just had an interesting weekend and I’d like to tell you all about it, but first:I am an excellent example of Newton’s first law of motion. It states that an object at rest will remain at rest. Inertia. There’s actually more to it than that, but it’s all I need to make my…

Hi EveryoneI’ve lived in Mississauga, Ontario, most of my life. Even as recently as last year all I had was a vague notion that there was a music scene developing in an area of this city called Port Credit. I’d heard that a few bars sporadically featured live bands, and of course there was the…

THE SHRINE Prior to last week’s show, I’d only been to Midland twice. Once in 1965 and again in 1966. Both times it was because of a school field trip. The Church of Saint Joseph, Martyr’s Shrine, is located in Midland. This is a Catholic church dedicated to the memory of eight French missionaries who…

Hi everyone! I hope you aren’t getting bored with this series. I had no idea when I started this that it would go on so long. My brother Pat and I have the type of memory called “episodic”. Given a cue, such as a date (particularly a special occasion), an incident, a song, a TV…

After Montreal, we worked a week in Richibucto, NB, two weeks in Moncton, NB, two weeks in Bathurst, NB and part of a week (?) in Charlottetown, PEI. There were five sets each night from 9 pm until 2 am. In some places, you work all week without a day off. It really separated the…