The label screwed up. Interscope gave iTunes a one week exclusive and violated its agreement. The track should be back up on Spotify in four days. Van Halen had nothing to do with pulling it down. Then again, they certainly approved the ticket prices! But that’s music today. If everybody’s doing it, why shouldn’t we? […]

There’s no money in the damn record anyway. So why was Van Halen’s "Tattoo" pulled from Spotify in the U.S. (and not in the U.K?) I’m sick and tired of these acts putting money first. Refusing to be on the bleeding edge but insisting on pulling up the rear, screaming, kicking and crying all the […]

Somebody e-mailed me an MP3 of "Tattoo" and it sounded positively AWFUL! All compressed, with the vocal right up front, and if I was a self-satisfied smugster I would have said it sucked. But when I listened to a higher res version via my $250 Sennheiser headphones, when I listened on my $1500 AUX speakers, […]

There’s been this b.s. that concert tickets went through the roof because of Napster, that the acts had to make it up somewhere. But that’s just lemmings trying to emulate rich lifestyles, to go back to the cause you’ve got to retreat to 1996, when Bob Sillerman rolled up the concert promoters into what was […]