So many folks who thought Born in the USA was a pro-America song are suddenly worried about not understanding lyrics.

The less said about the time I ended up in a room with this dunce the better, but I appreciate that the photographic evidence shows me scowling at him from the stage.

It’s gonna take a couple weeks to wrap my head around this one.

All my Boston Area Peeps yous guys need to go see JBE's amazing show "The Ego and the Oracle." twenty seven thumbs up. Do it. And if you can't go, share with your neighbors. Trust me. You won't regret it.

Next Friday the 13th! "The Ego & The Oracle" is live musical fortune-telling by Jim's Big Ego! 7pm at The Burren (Davis Square, Somerville). Tickets at tickets.24hourmusic.com/eventperform...

Friend: Did you watch the Grammys? Me: Pffft! The Grammys are pointless and irrelevant. Friend: Someone you played with won one. Me: Woohoo! So cool! That's awesome!

Does anyone know if that damn groundhog saw his shadow? I don't know if I can handle six more weeks of Edgar Winter.

"Melania" opening weekend in Boston has sold 92 tickets out of 3,847 seats.

Our country was founded on protesting unjust laws.

If anyone needs me, I'll just be over here making out with the entire showroom at Control Voltage in NE PDX OR.

Try harder, street! You can do it!

Recording an album in Seattle this week with The Split Squad at a studio that is pretty much keyboard heaven.

Okay, maybe I’ll just skip my flight.

Saints be praised! I found my 1992 “End of the Road” cassingle with “Instrumental Version” on the B-side. Also, shame on spellcheck for not recognizing “cassingle.”

@tookymonster.bsky.social Saw this license plate in Illinois today and thought of you…

Blood, Sweat & Tears has had eleven Daves and twenty-one drummers, but they've never had a drummer named Dave.

Time to try and figure out how and why this movie left such a lasting mark on me back in the ‘80s.

Friend: Josh, can you put some guitar on this song? And it should sound kind of bad, like almost (but not quite) on purpose. Me: You've come to the right place.

Don Henley, backstage after a Brian Wilson show telling Wilson how much his music meant, asked him to sign a first-pressing vinyl copy of "Pet Sounds." Wilson signed it: "Don, thanks for the great songs" and started to hand it back, but then decided to cross out "great" before returning it to him.

7th anniversary of getting to lead sing-alongs at one of Yo La Tengo's Hanukah shows at the Bowery Ballroom

Here I come a-wassailing.

The fine ornament makers at Hallmark really nailed my likeness. And my aversion to wearing pants while at work. 📷 by @yourcanadiangf.bsky.social

I recorded this Christmas organ version of "Brass Bonanza." The original version was the official theme song of the Hartford Whalers, who played in the National Hockey League from 1979-1997.

Got presents for my cousins at tonight’s annual family Hanukah party.

Need to ask this guy at the airport with the "Best Husband Ever" t-shirt if he's willing to give me some pointers.

I’m playing accordion this afternoon from 3:30 to 6:30 with Mike Verge, Joe Klompus, and Danielle Miraglia at Toad in Porter Square. No cover. Come say hello!

Sun Ra's Christmas song is among his most normal AND most deranged works. Some time from 1956-1960, Ra produced & played harmonium on this song he co-wrote for unknown Chicago teen doo-wop group The Qualities. Pretty sure the woodblock player wasn't allowed to listen to playback during recording. A+

This isn't my first rodeo, though my last one was before The Great Rodeo Reforms of 1982, so, in a way, it is.

Here at Jim's Big Ego headquarters, we've got the song that's missing from your holiday party playlist. "I (Don't Know How to) Party" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrok...

This song rules. Luther being Luther (fittingly, this 1976 track was released by Luther's pre-solo group, which is called Luther), Smooth-R&B arrangements (by former Motown legend Paul Riser) that are both tight and lush, and a killer bass-line that's frenetic without sacrificing groove/purpose/joy.

The after-party at the end of The Dream Syndicate tour two nights ago had everything I needed.

Happy 10th anniversary of the time I seem to have fired a confetti cannon on stage during a Dead Milkmen performance.

My friends make sure I know about the things that really matter, and I love them for it.

Holy pilgrimage. #Philadelphia

Betcha didn’t know he went to ISU.

New phone, who’s this? #DavisSquare

John Denver is like if Scooter joined The Electric Mayhem.

Last week, this was “next week,” but this week, it’s this week!

BestChristmasSongOf '70, '71, '72, '73, '74, '75, '76, '77, '78, '79, '80, '81, '82, '83, '84, '85, '86, '87, '88, '89, '90, '91, '92, '93, '94, '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, '00, '01, '02, '03, '04, '05, '06, '07, '08, '09, '10, '11, '12, '13, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, '19, '20, '21, '22, '23, '24, '25

You may be cool, but you'll never be "Freddie Stone & Larry Graham on Ed Sullivan" cool.

"Do you ever get sick of playing 'Charge?'"

Look, Ma! I'm on TV at the laundromat! #SpinRoom #NewsCycle #MovinOnUp

SO STOKED to be playing keyboards for The Dream Syndicate on their Northeast run next week! The show includes a front-to-back performance of the band's brilliant "Medicine Show" album. Tickets via thedreamsyndicate.com/tour.html (Hometown show is Weds Dec 10th at the Crystal Ballroom in Somerville.)

Happy November from my neighborhood to yours. instagram.com/nightmareonp...

Happy Buyer's Remorse Sunday to all who celebrate.

Happy 10th anniversary of the night I was interviewed by a talking squirrel puppet alongside Mark Robinson from Unrest and a guy who claimed he was "Gene Simmons from the rock brand KISS." 📷 by @bsearles.bsky.social

Pop quiz! This statue on the Paseo de Recoletos in Madrid is of: a) Phil Jackson b) David Letterman c) Leland Sklar d) Ramón María del Valle-Inclán y de la Peña

Today's breakfast menu is a choice between leftover tofu/spinach/brown rice, and the contents of this can that magically appeared in the fridge.