John Trimble Essays on
Music, Bands, and the World at Large

Excerpt from:

The Memory Sherpa

Okay, okay, I admit it, I have been putting this off because it is going to get very complicated very quickly but it’s time. When people are mountain climbing and they tie themselves together because at any moment one of them could step off the ledge, tumble off the path because of conditions… well it is kind of like that. So I am now securely fastening our little leashes together because—in the narrative fog we are about to go through—I guarantee we will get separated. Plus my memory, although exacting, is the only little Sherpa dude that we have available …  [ read more ]

Essay List:

  • The Tragedy of Slow Motion
  • Crushing on Vince Mendoza and the Metropole Orchestra
  • The Memory Sherpa Sticks His Thumb Out
  • Joe Radovich
  • Three Weddings and a Tour de Donut
  • The Memory Sherpa
  • Cafe Bombay
  • On Phil Howard and Soft Machine
  • Sound Check
  • John’s Gear
  • Robert Wyatt: An Appreciation
  • It’s the Mole! On Matching Mole
  • JFK: The Fifth Beatle
  • Why Jimi Matters
  • Phantom
  • Squeaky
  • Cosmo
  • The Road Ends in Water