TVD’s The Idelic Hour with Jon Sidel

Greetings from Laurel Canyon!

Jenny said / When she was just about five years old / You know why parents gonna be the death of us all / Two TV sets and two Cadillac cars / Well you know, it ain’t gonna help me at all, not just a tiny bit / Then one fine mornin’ she turns on a New York station / She doesn’t believe what she hears at all / Ooh, she started dancin’ to that fine fine music / You know her life is saved by rock ‘n’ roll, yeah rock ‘n’ roll

Despite all the computations / You could just dance / To that rock ‘n’ roll station / And baby it was alright (it was alright) / Hey it was alright (it was alright)

Just got back from a week on the east coast with family. It’s been over two years since I’ve ventured home. I came back to hang with my mom, sister, and see my daughter off to work in Paris.

I must say it was hard “getting out” of LA. I feel like the pandemic has given me some kind of travel phobia. I really just don’t want to travel, and I must say “traveling” last week was a drag. Luckily I stuffed my wheele with warm clothes. I even brought my trusty USB microphone to cut last week’s show. It was nice to smell a hint of the change of seasons, but saw no green leaves and couldn’t get an Idelic Hour out for Good Friday.

This week’s show features many of the songs I been listening to during my week east. The trip highlight was 24 hours in NYC spent with my “star-child” Zoe Bleu, Arsun, and my OG pal Chris Rommelman. Chris and I spent an epic night walking the city of our youth. From Lafayette to the Bowery, Ludlow past White Street (Mudd Club), and eventually over the Brooklyn Bridge to his home turf on the Heights.