Or lack thereof. The sales figures are in.  Adele beat out Lady Gaga.  At least by the "Hits" numbers.  113,000 and change to 105,000 and change.  (One can ask why the SoundScan and "Hits" numbers are so similar and SoundScan charges so much for theirs but…) So what do we want to say here?  That […]

I got e-mail telling me Buffalo Springfield did not play at Fordham University, they canceled. I’ve got a very good memory.  But that doesn’t mean I can’t be wrong.  I asked the naysayer if he was at the Fordham gig.  He said yes.  And then when I a second e-mail came in, stating that the […]

Can you order rack of lamb at a gas station? Howdy.  I’m in Mammoth Lakes.  Skiing. I know, I know, you just had a heat wave on the east coast but here in California they had record-breaking snowfall and right now there’s an 8-16 foot base and the skiing today was GLORIOUS!  The mountain is […]

Re: Andrew Gold Hi Bob I lost a dear friend and songwriting partner last week, the singer, songwriter, producer and multinstrumentalist Andrew Gold. He died in his sleep of a heart attack, following years of battling cancer, at the untimely age of fifty nine. I first met Andrew in 1981 when 10cc’s US record company, […]