Hold on, wait a second, don’t shoot the messenger! So I’m sitting in the waiting room at the UCLA Medical Center and I’m reading this new book from the Trouser Press: “Wake Me, Shake Me: New York City, the 60s & the Pop-Rock Youthquake”: https://www.trouserpressbooks.com/wake-me-shake-me I wasn’t planning to read it. I was just skimming […]

I read with great interest your commentary on the recent Jeff Beck biography.  Although I have not read it, I share your desire to get a definitive story to unlock the enigma of Jeff Beck.  I say this after working as his publicist at Epic Records back in the ‘70s, and later serving as his […]

Amy Lee is a force of nature. She’s everything the competitors on “American Idol” and the rest of the TV competition shows want to be. But in addition to being able to sing, she can write and play too. This trifecta used to be the bedrock of the music business. And it still is, flavors […]

Los Angeles could be the most hated city in the country. Of course there is Houston, crippled by its lack of zoning, but L.A. is bigger, second only to New York, and it’s in California, which has been successfully vilified by the right wing. So why should anybody live here? As the story goes, L.A. […]