I want to be a comedian. The rock stars get all the chicks, the comedians have all the fun. Backstage at a rock concert is a boring hierarchy of self-important pricks jockeying for access to tired musicians who are barely verbal to begin with. Backstage at a comedy club is an endless visit to the […]

JAMES TAYLOR Well, can we call 10,000 a night a disappointment? Well, if capacity is 20,000. This is a classic JT summer tour.  I mean how many times have you seen it?  As the man gets ever-blander.  With too many backup singers and a focus on sweet singing instead of meaning. Tickets ain’t stratospheric.  This […]

How ridiculous.  Wind-Up was/is successful because it plays by COMPLETELY DIFFERENT rules from EMI.  EMI is a tightfisted company destroying team morale by constantly focusing its employees’ eyes on the bottom line.  Wind-Up is an operation wherein no fee or distance is too large if the company BELIEVES in something.  Wind-Up is the kind of […]

I read in the "New York Times" that Mariah Carey’s "We Belong Together" was the song of the summer. The only time I heard it was at the MTV Movie Awards.  She sang the shit out of it.  But it’s not my definition of a summer song.  And it’s not MY summer song.  MY summer […]