A View From Here. A few years ago there was a writers conference held in the central Oregon coast town of Yachats, where I lived. I listened to the late Ken Kesey, a frequent visitor to the area, tell a writer that this could be a hard place to write. “If you think you can sit there staring at the ocean for inspiration you’re wrong, it’s not out there, it’s in your head!”
He was right. It is beautiful here in Lincoln County. It’s the kind of beauty that makes concentrating on anything else tough. And since hearing that insight, I’ve written at a desk facing a wall no windows opening onto a ocean view, although I have one, but it’s worked.
I’ve done, and do, different kinds of writing. As a freelance writer I’ve been a observational columnist, a humor columnist, a book and music reviewer for newspapers, magazines, and online.
However, as a creative writer, my heart belongs to fiction. In that genre I do short stories, road adventure stories, musical adventure tales, and in current production, are three small novels.
So really the purpose of this web site is to give you a glance of some of the things I’ve done, a preview of what’s coming, and hopefully, a view of what it’s like to be a writer living in a small town on the Oregon coast! – Rick Schultze
The record Representative, Nate Jackson, from Warner Brothers Records arrived and introduced himself to all of us at Duffys to get the audition started. He’d checked in to a hotel downtown and after auditioning us was flying back to Los Angeles in the morning. It was much different dealing with Read more…
We Rocked the Molly Brown Tavern and Bozeman, Montana and every other rock club on the GMA circuit for the next few months while working on our own original songs. Our goal was to work our way West and hit the bigger markets in Portland and Seattle. We knew if Read more…
Molly Browns was the name of the club we were booked to play in Bozeman, Montana. Another great club in a college town, Bozeman is the home of Montana State and it rocks! After our first set we could feel it, it was going to be a good job! As Read more…
Our first stop playing on the GMA circuit after Missoula was The Red Barn in Great Falls, Montana. The Barn, as it was affectionately called was a big wide open club, It was a great place to play and the owners were easy to work with. Great Falls also had Read more…
A blast from the past in these crazy days. I usually write about current events but this week I’m going back to a more innocent time, hope you get a kick out of it! Back before cell phones and the internet I was in a rock and roll band. I’d Read more…
So you’ve got your band of friends together to start a band. To test the waters with your talent you have to play somewhere besides in the garage. You know, get a job. The first bands I was a member in played teen dances and local small parties. We went Read more…
The Agent He or she that facilitates a deal that benefits both the seller and the buyers. Here we are talking about the band that is for sale and the club owner or promoter that is buying the band. Done correctly both parties make some money. That is in theory Read more…
So our band had progressed to working now and then in small bars. We had secured an agent who was trying to push us into what we thought was the “big time”. To us that was steady work in one of the several bars that used bands five nights a Read more…
For our band that had been playing part time suddenly to become became full time and it was definitely different Going from playing two nights a week to five nights a week was a big change. Since all of us had day jobs, the extra three nights we were playing Read more…
Being in a rock and roll band is like riding the tide. It’s always moving and changing. One minute you’re coming in and the next minute you’re going out! For us the tide had been in our favor, we’d been working steady and getting better the more we worked. Read more…
We landed in Rock & Roll heaven when we hit The Middle Earth Tavern in Sandpoint Idaho. Drinking was legal at eighteen, the town was on the shores of a beautiful lake, full of tourists, and they all wanted to party, so we were happy to oblige! Imagine being in Read more…
We bid Sandpoint, Idaho the Middle Earth Tavern a fond farewell and hit the highway for Kalispell, Montana for our first job for The Good Music agency. We were set to work there then head for Missoula, the home of GMA. It really felt like we were entering into the Read more…