Archive for 2016/01


Tales Of Brave Ulysses

I played this for my mother. I didn’t buy “Fresh,” not at first, my initial Cream purchase was “Disraeli Gears,” way before “Sunshine Of Your Love” got airplay, I experienced it as an album, it revealed itself to me with each play, and the song that hooked me was the second side opener, “Tales Of […]

Obama On Seinfeld

I love that Jerry wore his Nikes, dirty ones at that. That’s the essence of a baby boomer, irreverence, speaking truth to power. You don’t see no stinkin’ millennials doing that, never mind the lost generation known as Gen-X. Kids today are all about sucking up, being two-faced, doing what it takes to get ahead. […]

Robert Stigwood

He managed Cream. But no one knew his name until “Saturday Night Fever.” You’ve got to understand, the only requirement to being in show business, especially the music world, is the desire. It’s a compendium of self-made men, hustlers who fear neither veracity nor the law in their climb to the top. Whatever you learn […]

Aretha Franklin At The Kennedy Center Honors

It brings tears to your eyes. What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where the two musical highlights of the year were provided by septuagenarians? That’s right, Taylor Swift and Adele did not reach Mt. Everest in 2015, theirs were financial stories propped up by commercial pop and grade B songs, […]