You double down in a crisis. When the stock market tanks, you don’t pull your money out, you buy. This was the record labels’ biggest mistake, it haunts them to this day, when Napster hit they should have started spending, getting ready for the new reality, instead they kept cutting and no one under thirty […]

I know, third-rate boogie band. And I kind of agree with you. But I can still muster some enthusiasm for “Flirtin’ With Disaster,” but that’s not what I heard on Sirius today, that was “Whiskey Man.” Once upon a time, the rednecks didn’t listen to country, but rock and roll. Before country gave up its […]

They liked it better under Communism. At least you could predict the future. Now it’s every man for himself, and what’s worse, the game is undefined, and you have to pay $200 every time you pass Go, even though you’re not sure who to lay it on and you’re suspicious you’re falling further behind the […]

Who knows why David Lee Roth left Van Halen? Somehow, back then, Dave seemed to think he was bigger than the group, he STILL believes he’s bigger than the group! And the EP seemed like a lark, with the covers of “California Girls” and “Just A Gigolo” and their incessantly aired cheeky videos. But then […]