I heard about this first from Rapino. But no one’s listening to him, they’re just hating on Live Nation. For years Rapino’s been telling everybody that LN’s average customer goes to slightly more than one show a year.  Absolutely frightening unless you’re someone who lives in the present and believes the future’s gonna look just […]

You can’t do it without help. Once upon a time, a couple of decades back, I asked David Geffen for help.  Ours was a correspondence relationship, I didn’t go to his office, I don’t even remember talking on the phone.  I believed I was hot, and with his help, I could make it. Geffen declined. […]

I saw Little Feat at the Troubadour. When I was a junior in college, all the music magazines testified about this new album by Little Feat, entitled "Dixie Chicken". So, of course, I bought it.  And played it.  And if you’d taken a picture of my face upon that first time through you would describe […]