Dan Lyons wrote a brilliant analysis of the Facebook’s purchase of Instagram in "Newsweek". Bottom line, the web is dead. We live in a mobile world. And Facebook didn’t have a decent app. Rather than try and convince everybody to go back to the past, to keep surfing on full-sized computers, Zuckerberg bought Instagram, which […]

"Wheels Within Wheels"Rory Gallagher I heard this on the satellite on the ride home from Palm Springs and it was so right, so in the pocket, that it’s never left my mind. Rory Gallagher was doomed by being on Polydor, a second-rate label. I saw him open for Blind Faith with his band Taste, then […]

Am I the only one with mixed emotions? I guess what I hate most is those copycat awards shows, you know, the AMAs and the ACMs. They watered down the essence. They confused the populace. They were all about the money. Maybe I was too young for "American Bandstand". Or maybe I was the beneficiary […]

This is a non-story. Troupes of holograms will not be gracing the stages of amphitheatres, it was a one time stunt, which paid dividends for Snoop and Dre, expect it to be trotted out to diminishing returns in the future, like 3-D movies, but if you think holograms are where live entertainment is going, you […]