Did the Beatles plan on dominating the world? No, they just wanted to escape a life of drudgery in Liverpool. But their music became a mania.  Suddenly, not only were they rich and famous, they had innumerable groupies beckoning. Like Tiger Woods. When the Beatles hit, even into the heyday of Led Zeppelin in the […]

You can get a player for ninety nine bucks. Check out Wednesday’s article in the "Wall Street Journal": "Dreaming Of a Blu Christmas" (behind a pay wall, unfortunately, but you might find it via Google, Rupert Murdoch is so concerned with making bucks that he doesn’t see he’s heading straight towards irrelevancy). It looked like […]

If only Doug Morris knew how to use a computer. I’m still reading the responses to my "Leukemia" missive.  I appreciate the good will.  But I’m reading slowly not only because the missives are all personal, directed specifically to me, but because I’m learning so much. I heard from Steven Page, formerly of the Barenaked […]

What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where the phony country music in a movie is better than everything on the hit parade? I bought that Alpha Band album.  I didn’t think T Bone Burnett was that good.  But I guess he developed.  Which is why all our pop stars don’t […]