It was curiously flat. I don’t detest the new single and the "Like A Prayer" finale worked but a rock star never wants to risk being upstaged. And the game walked all over the Material Girl. I get it, it’s all about awareness, it’s all about selling tickets. And from what I understand, if you’re […]

I can see Jimmy play the guitar! I stayed up all night April 30, 1975 listening to "Physical Graffiti", not because I wanted to, but it was my last night in Utah and the dope dealers across the street were the only people I knew still in town, everybody else had disappeared with the end […]

My cable broke. The last time I bought stereo equipment it was 1999 and the MP3 revolution was still a year away. I was in the bathroom when an acrid smell wafted through the house. My Sansui burned up. My trusted integrated amp was no more. And unwilling to live without sound in my house […]

So my friend Cathy says she’s going to go to work for Rob Gordon at W.A.R.? Huh? You mean the guy who used to work in A&R at EMI, who started his own label? Those never went anywhere, not twenty years ago. But then she unfolded the story of the Samples, how they left Arista […]