Last night was the last concert in the Stoop Concert Series a series which I helped co-found seven years ago. I have been thinking about the magic of music quite a bit the last week or so, I mean I always think about music, it's part of who I am. This last week though has been different. A number of players from my youth passed away this week, guys like Andy Fraser from the band Free, Kenny Gorka of The Critters & Michael Brown of The Left Banke. These men helped define the sound of the '60's and though I only met Kenny through his ownership of The Bitter End in New York City I loved and respected them one and all. This week Eric Clapton also announced that he would celebrate hos 70th birthday with a concert at Madison Square Garden, in all honestly I would rather see one of my local indie artists play in the Rockwood Music Hall with an audience of friends than sit with an audience of tens of thousands of strangers. When I sit up at the radio station I don't want to just sit there and string together a show of the latest and greatest cool hit tunes. I have no interest in that whatsoever, What I do want to paint a sonic tapestry that will touch people in the depths of  their souls each time I slip a CD into the player. If I am not touching my listeners in deep places then I am just wasting my time and theirs. The same goes true as far as I'm concerned with concerts, we have all seen bands and artists who you can just tell are going through the motions, I want to see artists that have a hunger to produce great art and still have that fire in their bellies. That's where it's at!!! A friend of mine Susan Enan said it best a few years ago when she penned at tune called "Bring On The Wonder". I want to bring people into a world of wonder with each radio show, if I can do that I'll be a happy camper The two videos connected to this blog bring me to a place of wonder, I hope you feel the same.