From the Hips — Manhattan Beach native Tim Bluhm returns with The Mother Hips
The Mother Hips play Saint Rocke Saturday night. Photo by Andrew Quist Songs come to some people. How this happens isn’t so much science as alchemy, and it actually has less to do with musicianship than we tend to think. Many of our greatest virtuosos never pen a single song. Tim Bluhm was a senior at Mira Costa 21 years ago when a buddy gave him a beat up nylon string guitar. He wasn’t a musician, although his brother Erik had once enlisted him to play drums for his band, The Primates, at a school gig. “He made me play the drums at the quad at Mira Costa one time, and I didn’t even know how to play,” Bluhm said. “He said, ‘You are the drummer. You’ve got to play.’ So I had to play in front of the whole fricking school. It was terrifying.” That was the sum of his short career as a drummer, but Bluhm took his guitar up to Chico when he left for college. As he sat around his dorm room and played around with it, a strange and somewhat wondrous thing started happening. Songs arrived, and people followed. “I wasn’t really expecting anything out of it,” Bluhm said. “I wrote a couple little songs, and people started dropping by my dorm room to listen to the songs – even though I could…
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