Last night on KLSX a caller in Orange County, an early TWENTYSOMETHING, reported that he had paid $4,000 for front row tickets to see Paul McCartney. Yes, that was the topic.  Ticket prices.  What was a fair price. Stunningly, the only people complaining that prices were too high were those who never go.  As for […]

I don’t give a fuck.  If the South American dame knocked on my door I wouldn’t open it.  She was the most credible of Latin artists and then she came to America and blanded herself out to such a degree that she was unrecognizable to anybody who’d ever been exposed to her.  If only she […]

The two guys in the jacuzzi came all the way from Boston. While most people are firing up the backyard barbecue and dipping their toes in the pool, we’re up here SKIING, at Mammoth Mountain. That’s why I live in California.  We’d cruise around the bare spots in Vermont, and if we were lucky, our […]

From Mark Goodman (yes, THAT Mark Goodman): you are way behind the curve when it comes to spotting great music (just discovering Gomez! Gnarls Barclay!the Mark Knopfler/Emmy Lou Harris record that’s been around for months…are you fucking kidding!) What, is it 1972? Last time I checked, 60,000 albums were released a year.  If you know […]