Welcome from the Webmaster
(WOW! You're really good! I didn't think anyone would figure out the link to this page!)

I seldom get to do anything of lasting value in Bruce's music except pay some bills, do some tasks and, on the 45, get in a few hand claps. He says I get to sing on the new CD so perhaps I'll be immortalized in Electric Eddie history.

I started this website because I wanted to do something to help him sell some of the stax of wax and boxes of CD's in the crawl space. Since we are both getting toward retirement age, we are somewhat maudlin about the future and worry about our leaving. We both have a lot of stuff to dispose of before we go but his stuff has value whereas mine is just stuff.

The original website had a lot of nonsense because our relationship over the last thirty-four years has been occasionally contentious and argumentative. At times, I can't get him to budge on things unless I force him to pay attention. When I put up the original code, some of the things I wrote were really funny but not true. The biography made me laugh out loud but was designed to get him to take an interest in the site. The pages are now pretty much what he wants and I'm satisfied, but creatively constipated.

Here, however, I can say what I want to say and he has no power to stop me... first time that's ever happened, I can assure you. The only reason I can do this is that I'm pretty sure nobody will ever find this page. I'm pretty sure that he can't find this page because I'm not going to put a button or link on it so if you've found it, well, you're pretty sharp!

I've sat by his side or across from his stool for thirty-two years. I've heard all the tunes he has recorded from six ways to Sunday. I've listened to thousands of feet of cassette and reel-to-reel tape recordings of dozens of variations of his songs. Somewhere, I have a cassette of the famous Chances R concert which is what we are arguing about on the video, some thirty years later.

A hallmark of our relationship is that we have vastly different memories of events in the past. I learned very early on that he doesn't listen to much that I say so I've learned to make my point in subtle ways. I defer to his judgment on all things musical because I can't tell the difference between Bryan Adams and John Mellencamp so what can I say about Resurgence of Faith?

Still, I know what I think and sometimes I think he should do things differently than he thinks he should. However, at the end of the day, when the wax has dried and the CD's are pressed, it is his name on the cover and his songs leaking from the speakers. That is all that counts as far as I'm concerned. His word is law on the music. I occasionally get to influence the graphics although even that is a tough job at times.

I got him to sit down with me and write the website one evening in San Diego but first I had to dull his impatience with brisket and kasha at DZ Akins. It worked. You can see the results on the site. This labor of love is in fact, just that. He is more my brother than my friend and is, in fact, closer to me than my brother. We've lived a lifetime together, going through divorce, marriage, children, love affairs, road trips, death, disease and normal everyday life.

If I'm around when he records "Still Alive at 65" I'll be very surprised but very pleased. I'd like to sit on a park bench and play Simon and Garfunkel's "Old Friends" on whatever will pass for an MP3 player at that time. (I bought the tape and will keep a cassette player in my toy box so I can convert it to the format du jour.)

Anyway, I just wanted you to know that it's been a hell of a ride with him over the last generation and I hope you get to know him just a little through the music and the movies here on the Official Electric Eddie Website. We have always said that between us, we know everything necessary to know in life. I believe that I'm about 1/2 a competent human being and with his help, a completely competent one.

Thanks for coming by. I really do appreciate it. As a thank you present, click on the photo and see a movie of Bruce and I discussing his music. Some might think it is an argument but it isn't.

(You will need QuickTime player. Get it by clicking here.)