Archive for 2016/06


You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone

Jimmy Page is 72. I don’t know whether he ripped off Spirit, whether he and Robert will be held accountable by the jury, but I do know there will come a time when both of them won’t be here anymore. Or they will be, but they’ll be too infirm to play. Been a strange year […]

Altamont

They were so untogether! We think of the Stones as a seamless machine, all-knowing, hoovering up cash from all over the globe. But back in ’69 they had a personnel change, they hadn’t performed in America since ’66, and they just weren’t sure they were relevant, that they’d be embraced by the newly-hippified States, having […]

The Power Hierarchy

1. Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook Because that’s where the eyeballs are. Facebook far eclipses television and radio, it’s not only where you go to connect, it’s where you go to be informed. In an era of chaos, he who imparts order triumphs. Facebook killed MySpace because it was organized, there were rules. People say they prefer Android […]

Henry McCullough

With A Little Help From My Friends Woodstock – Spotify Woodstock Joe Cocker sings With A Little Help From My Friends 1969 – YouTube He was in the Grease Band. What would you do if I sang out of tune? You’d know one of the most famous songs of all time, the second cut on […]