I don’t want to pay for sports. I’m not talking a trip to Dodger Stadium, or Staples, but I’m not too eager for that either. I wait until one of my well-heeled friends coughs up a courtside seat, otherwise I just stay home and ignore the whole damn thing. I didn’t used to be this […]

It’s like going to school. Back in the olden days, when everybody went to public school, except for the privileged few who prepped and the Catholics with their parallel education system, we were all in it together. Nobody had better shoes, nobody flew to Europe for the weekend, we lived in an egalitarian society, everybody […]

I didn’t think I liked ZZ Top. I think it was their record company. By this time, London had outlived all usefulness, it seemed to be the last stop for those who couldn’t get signed to Warner Brothers, never mind Columbia or RCA. But I was prey to the hype, like touring with farm animals. […]

We’ve got great tools. But too much mediocre music. My goal is to get you to give up. If you’re a musician, I want you to stop. Oh, practice and play, be my guest. But please stop tweeting and Facebooking, keep stop trying to make it, you’re clogging the avenues, trying to uncover today’s great […]