Virgin Festival: Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Who, The Killers, Gnarls Barkley, The Raconteurs, Wolfmother, Kasabian, Flaming Lips, Scissor Sisters, Thievery Corporation, Brazilian Girls, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The New Pornographers, Drive-By Truckers… Pimlico Race Course – Baltimore, MD/Saturday 9/23/06Gross: $3,476,962Sold/Capacity: 34,714/60,000Tickets: $250.00/$97.50 Enough with the Virgin brand meaning that much. The self-hype of […]

Now THAT was confusing. For those of you lamenting the end of personalization, the end of human contact, let me suggest you go to the live gig.  Then again, the hoi polloi now think a live gig is some spectacular where people ready for embalmment trot out replicas of their hits to tape, with a […]

Call this a delaying tactic.  I was lying on my bedroom floor, anticipating my back exercises, and after punching up the smart playlist on my iPod of my 50 Most Recently Added Tracks, I heard this, Gov’t Mule’s "Million Miles From Yesterday". Do you remember 1972?  When there were no fashion awards, when you got […]

I was just at the shrink telling him that content was irrelevant, it was all about STYLE, the way I wrote something that counted. And now I’m about to break my rule. This Internet is so exciting.  Because of the ability to COMMUNICATE!  Not only the frequent e-mail from such far-flung places as Brazil, Sweden, […]