Archive for 2025/03


Jesse Welles Update

It’s not about the album. It’s not even about Spotify, et al. It’s about social media. And somehow the algorithm didn’t serve it up to me and every story about him didn’t mention this. I’ve got to give the guy credit. He broke through doing it the newfangled way. Going direct to the customer with […]

Deep Cuts

https://rb.gy/1mvqok “‘You’re so smart!’ she said accusingly, ‘I never understood it! Why would someone so smart be fixated on pop music?’” That’s what Percy’s mother tells her. My mother went to see my shrink to complain all I wanted to do was buy records and go to concerts, couldn’t I get on the right track? […]

Re-Molly Hatchet

What a pleasant surprise to read your words on Molly Hatchet… When manager Pat Armstrong brought the boys up from Jacksonville to Atlanta to audition for me,I jumped at the chance to work with the 3-guitar attack I had first observed when I tried to sign Skynyrd a few years earlier. Epic turned me down on […]

Big Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Bad

Or nothing is forever… People have been e-mailing me this twenty minute anti-Vail YouTube video. Yeah! Let’s beat up on Vail! And while we’re at it, let’s beat up on Spotify! And Ticketmaster is why concert prices are so high! I’d say I sound like a Republican, but now the Republicans want to go back […]