They’re Arlo’s kids. I just had the most amazing experience. You see in the wee hours, the 17th, 18th and 19th floor are turned over to these showcases, hotel rooms with players. Last night I was flummoxed, but tonight I got tips. My newfound buddy from the High Sierra Music Festival told me to show […]

I was TRANSFIXED! I’m still tingling. This is exactly what music is all about. Direct expression from one human being to another, with no committee, no filter messing up the message. And that’s why we’re living in a new golden age. Distribution has been flattened. Everyone can play. But are you any good? I now […]

1 I saw the ducks. It’s a ritual at the Peabody Hotel. The Duckmaster parades them out of the fountain down a red carpet into the elevator, which takes them to the rooftop, their nighttime abode. You can miss it, but I was in the neighborhood at the right time, five o’clock. I found out […]

The tour was trash. A likable guy telling all the stories you and I already know. But upstairs, after you pay your money to the tattooed clerk, after you wait until the half hour for the tour to begin, you enter a museum, a veritable history of not only Sun Studios, but recording itself. It’s […]