I think that was Tommy Shaw on the plane. You know, the blond guy from Damn Yankees and Styx. Would have been hard to believe just a few years ago, but rockers in music city? De rigueur! And it is music city. My limo driver, who was not an Angeleno, as in this was his […]

1 I first heard about Vietnam during a camping trip. Not long after the sun set, in that eerie window before complete darkness, Marshall Drazen told me there was a war going on, in a country I’d never heard of, far across the Pacific Ocean. I didn’t believe him. There weren’t supposed to be any […]

Musicians.  What a pain in the ass.  They make the music, but they’re not good at anything else.  Like SELLING their fucking music. Or could it be that Radiohead is just too old wave.  This wouldn’t happen with a new band.  New bands are WIRED, they UNDERSTAND the Internet.  Whereas now we know that Radiohead […]

Universal Music Takes on iTunes 1. Price matters.  If it didn’t, the PC wouldn’t have trumped the Mac the first time around. 2. Music is important, but so is software.  There’s a reason AOL cleaned up in the first Internet wave, it was USABLE!  Sure, AOL’s model was eventually eclipsed, but it took ten years, […]