Archive for 2008/11


The CMA Awards

I felt strangely disconnected from last night’s CMA Awards. Maybe it’s because I think Brad Paisley is a great guitar player but only a B level songwriter.  Maybe it’s because I believe in the Beatles, and no matter how great some of those George Strait records are, I can only believe in him so much […]

Stone In Love

I threw a Journey cassette away. The publicity firm we used for W.A.S.P. also repped Journey.  The girl who wrote the bio had just graduated from USC and was proud of this.  She gave me "Frontiers". I gave it a spin.  And then tossed it.  Because I didn’t want anybody to see it. Our collections […]

Heart Of Gold?

Neil Young is a scumbag. That’s what my buddy said at dinner last night. He loved Neil Young, but no longer. Because Neil blamed the union for cancellation of his gig, when the true story is he just couldn’t sell enough tickets! 6,000 at the Forum. Is this any surprise? For a guy who’s overcharged […]

Detroit

If Honda wants to start making Civics instead of Pilots, demand for small cars increasing in the wake of rising gasoline prices, they change a few arms on the robots and in a matter of hours, presto/change-o, finished Civics start rolling off the line.  If Ford wants to change production to a different model it […]