This is going to change my family’s life. That’s what a number of contestants said after winning a ticket to Hollywood last night.  Not that I’ve been woodshedding, my dream is to be backed up by Jeff Beck and Jim Keltner, to jam with John Mayer, but that if all goes well, I’m going to […]

I don’t sing and Bono shouldn’t write. In an era where Malcolm Gladwell reports that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to be any good, what made the "New York Times" believe that Bono could write opinion pieces worth reading?  He can come over to my house any time and serenade me with "I Still […]

But there’s a big fat pointThat you seem to be missingAnd it’s driving you to distractionThat doesn’t seemTo stop you in the leastOr halt this obsession That’s got you goin’ backWeek after weekDay after dayHour after hourFrom where you cameFor more of the same I got Amazon credit for using their service.  Not to buy […]

It’s coming from the promoter. In Aspen, Jim Lewi and Diarmuid Quinn lamented that there was nowhere to get cash anymore.  That the label couldn’t afford to fund everything.  Where was the money going to come from? Two weeks later a promoter who was in attendance laughed.  He told me the promoter was the new […]