Archive for 2017


Our Music

It was not entertainment, it was life itself. Yesterday we had to drive down to Rancho Santa Margarita for a birthday party, a two year old’s birthday party, the daughter of my nephew Andrew, who’s become the #3 BMW salesman in America, there I am boasting, I won’t for myself, but I will for him, […]

Quote of the Day

“‘All good inventions come from something personal,’ she said. ‘People create things because it’s personal.’” BINGO! Can you say Napster? Monday night I went to see Jade Bird at the Troubadour. Before that Daniel Glass held a party at the Polo Lounge. And this is where you excoriate me and him and I get it, […]

My Colonoscopy

There was a female doctor and a male nurse. Oh, how far we’ve come. It’s been eight years. I know the new standard is ten, but my internist says seven, and last year I was recovering from my shoulder surgery so I slipped a year but now it was necessary. My internist went off insurance. […]

The New Paradigm

Sales are done. If you want to sell merch at your gig, your best item is vinyl, since it can’t be replicated digitally. People don’t need turntables to play it, many don’t play it at all. It’s a SOUVENIR! From now on think of physical items as souvenirs, not as music. We live in an […]