I’ve come to learn that I’m not the only person who holds "Ten Years Gone" close to their heart, who ranks it as their favorite Led Zeppelin track.  Its magic is the weeping, almost acoustic guitar.  It’s the mood.  It doesn’t exist on the usual continuum, it’s not something you ever heard on the radio, […]

We used to depend on the radio.  We were addicted to our transistors, then our FM radios and then…MTV. I just heard "Cool Places" on Sirius.  Oh, you remember that one.  Can you believe they actually PLAYED Jane Wiedlin and Sparks on MTV?  Remember when we were all addicted to MTV, when it was a […]

LIVE NATION/HOB HOB wanted out.  At a much higher price, but out nonetheless. We can talk about the fuck-ups in HOB’s history, Isaac Tigrett’s overspending a la Erich von Stroheim and the failed (or far ahead of its time) filming of acts for new media distribution, but that’s all in the past.  Now we’re left […]

Soon your iPod will never break. Many of you weren’t around in the early days of computing, the eighties, when hard drives were introduced for personal computers, and failed on a regular basis.  You backed up everything on floppies, because that day was going to come.  When you heard that grinding noise and your data […]