What an original! We’ve been told that selling out is a choice. But the truth is Neil Young is just wired different. You can’t emulate him, because you’re not him. This interview was very slow to get going. Because Neil was reluctant. And he was mimicking his hero Bob Dylan, refusing to explain his songs […]

LISTENS NOT DOWNLOADS Who cares how many people downloaded the new U2 album, the only important thing is how many people LISTENED to it! This is a huge sea change that is getting little publicity and has been overlooked in the outcry about streaming payments. In the future, you will get paid for every play […]

It was a party. The classic rock era was passive. Today’s music scene is participatory! People have become stars in their own lives, utilizing their mobiles to post to Instagram, everybody believes he’s famous, is it any wonder today’s music reflects this? We used to adulate the acts, now we adulate ourselves. And this is […]

They couldn’t be anything else. The first time I heard “Dream On” was just about now, only forty one years ago, crossing the great state of Massachusetts from Amherst to the 91. There were no iPods, never mind Walkmen, and unless you had a modern car, you were limited to AM. And my automobile was […]