Peter Schindelman

Peter is from West Springfield, Massachusetts. I know him from way way back in usenet days - that must be mid to late 90s. I can still recall his spoken contribution (with beautiful acoustic guitar in the background) to an audio Xmas RMB project several years ago. Read more

Beatles, Eleanor Rigby

The actual genesis of the song existed as ‘Miss Daisy Hawkins’, which Paul invented at the piano one evening. He further worked on the composition, apparently inventing the entire melody, and had the idea of a lonely woman whose only participation in a wedding would be to pick up the rice after it was over, i.e. a janitress. One story attributes the Read more

A Day in the Life

It appears to me that “A Day In The Life” would be a perfect candidate for cross-generational appeal. It’s about a topic that seems to touch just about every disaffected soul, no matter what their age. And it’s less important what the historical references are than how the singer/ protagonist responds *to* them. John’s ironic ennui sculpts Read more

Two of us

Paul had pretty definite ideas about this one…and far be it from me to contradict him. After all, the man knows for whom, presumably, he writes a song. And Paul was adamant that “Two Of Us” was for Linda Eastman, his then-recent girlfriend, soon-to-be wife. That’s what he told journalist Ray Coleman. But Paul had one remarkable gift Read more