There were billboards on Sunset Boulevard. It’s hard to fathom the music business, it’s hard to fathom Los Angeles, if you weren’t there in the seventies. The dream had died, Nixon was elected, Tom Wolfe named it the “Me Decade” and at the advent of the next decade Reagan legitimized greed, the boomers grew up, […]

“Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry” Sometimes the best entertainment is free. “Tommy” was not an immediate smash, but it was in my house. It was led by the exquisite single “Pinball Wizard” during the winter of ’69, which got little airplay and was not worth buying as a single since you knew the double LP was […]

The first ten minutes is the best advertisement for the music business this decade. There’s been too much focus on the negative for this entire century. And it’s all about the decline in revenue of recorded music. There’s industry infighting, bitching about streaming, hosannas about vinyl, meanwhile the public doesn’t care. It’s a struggle out […]

Luke is eight. I love talking to the little kids. They answer you honestly, they miss the nuance, they’re fountains of information presented unfiltered and when Luke told me he was listening to TheFatRat I had no idea what he was talking about. He immediately told me he’d found him on his favorite YouTube channel, […]