I didn’t buy any Velvet Underground records.  That didn’t mean I didn’t SEE any Velvet Underground records or HEAR any Velvet Underground records, just that I didn’t BUY any!  Who wouldn’t be fascinated by the peelable banana on the cover of the debut album?  And someone played me "The Gift"…I remember hearing it and wondering […]

If Phish is giving away a free download of last night’s Hampton Coliseum show is the reign of the late twentieth century major label paradigm finally over? That’s how it worked.  The record company signed you, ripped you off and set you free to make some cash on the road, if the company had built […]

"I and I" is from "Infidels", not "Slow Train Coming".  Mark Knopfler does play the guitar, but the keyboards are exercised by Alan Clark. Barry Beckett did play the keys on "Slow Train Coming", as well as co-producing the album, but he didn’t work on "Infidels". But, Mr. Beckett did work on Paul Simon’s "There […]

Who’s a bigger rock star, Bono or Obama? I saw U2 on Letterman, and what struck me was it was Dave’s show.  It was like U2 were members of the peanut gallery, brought up on stage at the end of the telecast to perform for the children.  How the fuck did we get here?  How […]