Now I get Jesus.  What it was like to have your hero taken away from you before his time.  Martyred by a society that didn’t understand him. John Lennon wasn’t God when he was alive.  But in the ensuing twenty five years since his death, that’s what he’s become.  A man who listened to his […]

Why don’t they just hire a teenager to tell them how fucked up they are. I thought they changed the rules.  To insure that another Jethro Tull debacle wouldn’t happen again.  Then, how in HELL did "Devils & Dust" get nominated as Song of the Year.  Was this a hit ANYWHERE?  Did I just miss […]

The complaint of the major labels is very real.  Their business is evaporating. Last week’s sales were off 12.9% from the comparable week in 2004.  This on top of sales decreases for the past half decade.  Which now seem to be ACCELERATING! First explanation.  Dearth of superstar product. Only one problem here.  No one’s figured […]

It was just before punk and new wave.  Just before disco.  The last hurrah of conventional, major label rock.  Only one thing, even though he’d been around for years, Gary Wright’s solo debut was anything but conventional.  Oh, it was comprised of songs, but the instrumentation was all SYNTHESIZERS! All these years later, "Dream Weaver" […]