Archive for 2006/10


Sirius/XM

Did Howard Stern kill satellite radio? Satellite radio was a contender.  Like FM in the late sixties it was based on broad playlists, doing something different, that people believed in and sold religiously via word of mouth. Then came Howard Stern. Sirius was a dying service.  A clone of XM.  With broad playlists and very […]

Record Label Madness

Stay out of the record business! If I hear one more fat cat or out of touch has-been studio guy or musician say they’re starting a record label I’m gonna keel over and die of laughter.  Please, SAVE MY LIFE! Enough with the disc support.  It’s on LIFE SUPPORT!  The disc is gonna die an […]

My Hometown

JET AIRLINER Riding along on this big old jet planeI’ve been thinking about my home They tell you if you’re gonna crash, right? I was cured of flight fright by Jay Krugman, who, on a particularly bad flight into Denver, convinced me the odds were just too low.  I might die on the highway, in […]

Frampton At The Wiltern

1 What’s creepy about the passe acts is they want you to believe they’re still in their heyday. Not that they’ve still got their chops, which they might, but it’s the actual YEAR of their greatest success. Look at Madonna. This almost fifty year old mother of two wants us to believe she’s still cutting […]