HARD Summer It was like I was invisible. You always wonder in L.A., am I safe? This is the land of Rodney King, this is where there are fewer police per square mile and enough ethnicities to shoot a whole slate of MTV reality shows. Yes, MTV made a conscious decision to show the black, […]

This is what it’s all about. You see prior to “Workingman’s Dead”, not only had almost no one east of San Francisco heard the band, they thought their music sounded like their moniker. Heavy and dark, somewhere between Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, whose eponymous debut would come out shortly thereafter. The previous albums were […]

Who do you go to for guidance? Who understands how the game is really played? Who can help you navigate the waters, help you get to your destination? It’s usually not your best friend. He or she will tell you what you want to hear, not what you need to know. And your parents… You […]

I blew ninety minutes on this last night and my only regret is it ended. I famously say I live in California because of the Beach Boys. And if you don’t believe me, you’ve never heard “California Girls”. But by time I’d graduated from college and was footloose and fancy free, the music had changed. […]