"It Ain’t Easy"Ron Davies The best track on "Ziggy Stardust" is "Moonage Daydream". But the most surprising cut is Bowie’s cover of Ron Davies’ "It Ain’t Easy", which ends side one. I’m trying to replicate a sampler album I got from A&M in my freshman year of college.  Oh, I’ve got Free’s "I’ll Be Creepin’", […]

The day after Brad Delp died, I found myself in a hotel ballroom for the induction of Triumph into the Canadian Music Industry Hall Of Fame. I first heard "More Than A Feeling" on either KMET or KLOS.  They were right next to each other on the FM dial, at 94.7 and 95.5 respectively.  The […]

Yesterday at lunch Michael McCarty told me there was a different vibe at Canadian Music Week this year, it was no longer about beating up the major labels, lamenting the sad state of affairs in the music business, but picking up the new tools and TAKING ACTION! CDs are in free-fall.  This week sales were […]

I got bumped by David Foster. Well, not exactly.  You see I was supposed to tape "The Hour" yesterday at four.  But mere hours before I was supposed to leave L.A. I got a message, could I come EARLIER?  Like TWO? Well, I had a lunch that had been planned for weeks.  And it’s hard […]