When did I decide I hated Elvis Costello? Probably about the time the johnny-come-latelies started telling me how good "Spike" and the other Warner titles were.  Where was the sharp incisiveness of the vicious dude who threatened an audience member at the Whisky back in ’77?  The guy mellowed out, kept getting married and divorced […]

If George Harrison can go to court and lose, what makes Chris Martin and his team think they can win this one?  Especially with YouTube on Satriani’s side? It’s like sampling.  Clear the license.  Pay the man.  Coldplay could have paid Satriani and the world wouldn’t be the wiser.  How many people know the original […]

I’ve been reading this book about the corporate ski industry entitled "Downhill Slide".  It delineates how consolidation of the ski industry has not only ruined communities but has contributed to the death of the sport.  People used to go to the mountains for a rural experience, now the ski towns are urbanized, with all the […]

If only Creedence Clearwater Revival had been on Columbia instead of Fantasy. Not even WB.  That was the difference between the Big Red Machine and the laid back L.A. posse.  New York had a scorched earth policy. Columbia sold the record to everybody who might have an interest.  By time they were done, the album […]