How bad do you want it?How bad do you want it?How bad do you want it?Not bad enough "How Bad Do You Want It?"Don Henley Craig Kallman asked me if Malcolm Gladwell was a subscriber. I told him I didn’t know, there was almost no way to tell.  The more famous the person, the more […]

My goal is to stay off the phone.  But on one especially boring call, I clicked on the radio stations in iTunes, something I haven’t done for years, and discovered RadioIO Folk. I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a yearning for songs.  And intimacy.  And I find just about each and every cut […]

I’m fascinated by the decline of the American car industry. In today’s "New York Times" there’s an ode to the GTO When Pontiac Meant Muscle Which I knew from the Ronny & the Daytonas song, but didn’t truly appreciate until the 1967 model, three years after the car’s introduction, when the Pontiac was the sleekest […]

Jim Messina left, Richie Furay jumped ship for momentary success with J.D. Souther and Chris Hillman, and Messina and Furay’s replacements, Timothy B. Schmit and Paul Cotton, carried on with original members Rusty Young and George Grantham to a new label, never to have success until Timothy B. jumped ship too and a band that […]