I’m a believer. Does your heart palpitate when you’re in the same room as a rock star? God, I read every line of the rock press, so to be hanging with these people makes me tingle.  Makes me feel like asking a girl on a date.  Back when I was in high school and if […]

What a clusterfuck THAT was. The managers in the U.K. are pissed.  And they’re not going to take it anymore.  They’re rebelling against major label practices.  They want no packaging deduction on digital downloads, they want MORE of the digital pie, they want to be paid royalties on PHYSICAL product. This has been the talk […]

You see in England they still believe.  In the power of rock and roll.  In the artistic statement.  In the music industry. It’s very different in the States.  Everybody’s jaded.  It all comes down to the bucks.  It’s totally o.k. to go for them, and he who collects the most wins. Maybe it’s that Englishmen […]

So we’re driving south in Liverpool.  From the docks to the city center.  And Tony points out this giant edifice.  And tells me it’s an air vent.  For the tunnel.  ACROSS THE MERSEY! Hanging with Tony Wilson is like hanging with a living encyclopedia.  It’s an endless river of facts, quotations and insights.  On the […]