From: Chris FrantzSubject: Re-Lying Greetings from France, Bob. I remember Larry Butler well. We visited many a radio station and record store together promoting Talking Heads. He’s a good guy and I look forward to reading his book. Let me just say one thing about Tom Verlaine, though. I don’t think Tom ever recommended any […]

"Lopez dumped from "Idol" after seeking raise to $17 million" I’m reading Larry Butler’s book. "Larry Butler, who’s that?" Mr. Butler was an artist development guy at Warner Brothers forever, when it was still the WB we knew and loved. And before that he was a musician, he opened for the Stones! Well, I’m getting […]

You’d read an article about that, right? Actually, I caught up a week late, reading the responses, in the "New York" magazine that just arrived today. And after finishing that issue, I delved into the prior one, containing the aforementioned article, which was billed on the cover as "Does Money Make You Mean? How even […]

I hate KISS. Or is it Kiss? No disrespect intended, from now on I’m going to use the latter. Then again, this is all about disrespect. Kiss was a johnny-come-lately with lousy songs that appealed to those who’d only recently experienced puberty. They went on the road playing their lame music to pyrotechnics, trying to […]