Archive for 2007/12


SoundScan-Week Ending 12/16/07

199. White Stripes "Icky Thump" Sales this week: 8,109Cume: 664,573 If we didn’t have to read so much about Jack White, if he wasn’t such a media darling in a media saturated world, we wouldn’t see this number as a disappointment, but as the number of an up and comer. Before Meg had her anxiety […]

Just A Bit More Zeppelin

Bob, I know you tend to write provocative articles to provoke responses and there has been many a time I would have responded to some typical Bob inflammatory comment. So now that time has come. Bob, you are sounding like a grumpy old man. The Led Zeppelin reunion creepy? How could that be? I watched […]

Same Old Lang Syne

Fifty six is too young to die. I remember my mother saying people in their forties were young and my sisters and I laughed. Youth is about exuberance, a sense of invulnerability, you believe what has happened to the rest of humanity will never happen to you. If you’re lucky, you get old. But some […]

Final Aspen?

My fingers are tingling a bit. You see I stayed out too long skiing at Elk Camp yesterday with Chris and Barbara Jones. I met Barbara on the lift at Snowmass. What, was it 1998? And then she and Chris invited me to their annual Halloween party, in West L.A. I might have been the […]