Re: The Syd Barrett Movie The most-played recording in my entire collection (which ain’t tiny) is Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Sheer genius. A few months after Barrett departed, we did a TV show with Pink Floyd, who were in the US for the Philadelphia Music Festival at JFK Stadium in July 1968. We were opening for […]

People don’t like the streamers. The only company with any good will left is Netflix, which even I am less than enthusiastic about since it canned the woman who made the highbrow halo productions for someone green-lighting middle of the road, dumbed-down fare, the kind that caused the networks to lose market share to the […]

From: James Montgomery Subject: Thank you Bob, Thank you so much for writing about me and Tom Rush.  I’ve heard from people all over the globe responding to the article.  Since the stuff on Wikipedia I was in The Johnny Winter Band for 6 years and one of the people responsible for getting him off […]

Hey Bob, As a fellow suburban escapee, I share your sentiments regarding the life from which I escaped. When Irving Azoff called and told John Baruck, and told him to “Grab the REO guys, and come to LA.”, I semi-reluctantly packed up the smallest U-haul trailer available, and headed west. California was freedom, fun, and […]