If I were to take a young band, I would have them listen to four people: Burt Bacharach, Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson and Paul Simon, or maybe Laura Nyro. Listen to the construction of those songs. I mean, the Beatles – so simple, but I get everything they’re saying to me. When I hear these […]

This is SO good I want you to stop what you’re doing right now, IMMEDIATELY, and go to the store and buy this book.  Because this is the most authentic account of how it really was.  And why it can never be this way ever again. We were glued to the radio.  When we saw […]

I picked up the "L.A. Weekly" and found out the dinosaurs are back on the road.  And that now includes acts that had their heyday in the eighties, like Pat Benatar, not only REO Speedwagon and Donna Summer and…Al Green. None of these acts can sell a new record.  Not in quantity.  But they want […]

If Howard Stern were not behind a pay wall, if he was a judge on "American Idol", if he could be easily and readily heard, he’d be the most influential man in America. Huh?  Fartman?  The guy who spanks girls’ bottoms and gets them to show their titties? I never listened to Howard when he […]