Archive for 2021/09


Anka and Al

PAUL ANKA: That podcast is among the best things I have ever listened to! I didn’t want it to end. And you know me. I can be the ADHD poster child.  But I sat enraptured and inspired through the entire interview. Paul and I have bumped into each other a few times at events and […]

Re-Touring/Covid-19

You are painfully spot on about those last few shows of a tour making up for the first several that break even or maybe even lose money. That is one thing making this summer very difficult. Most people can’t wrap their heads around a band selling out the Garden and not making a cent, but […]

Touring Snapshot

Every show has to play. If a band member, even a member of the entourage, gets infected with Covid-19 it’s a disaster. Don’t expect the hoi polloi to understand touring, after all they can’t understand ticketing, not even the government can understand ticketing, the public thinks that Ticketmaster gets all the fees and the scalpers […]

The End Of Minority Tyranny?

Thank god I live in California. Not only does California have the lowest covid infection rate in the country: https://wapo.st/3klHYZk starting October 7th you’ve got to be vaccinated or show a negative test to attend an event with 10,000 people or more: https://lat.ms/2VXPeBy That’s another reason Newsom won by such a large margin, COVID! The […]