Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99

Trailer: https://bit.ly/3BWetXc 1 Did we need another look at Woodstock ’99? Not really, last year’s HBO movie was sufficient. I imagine some young people might watch this Netflix series for the trainwreck value, to get a peek at what once was, as for older people, aware when the festival took place… I recommend it only […]

Mo Ostin

I didn’t know Mo well, but I was intimately involved with his work. That was the difference between Mo and his competitors, he was not self-aggrandizing. He was a family man, akin to your father, but he ran the best label operation on the planet, FOR DECADES! You’ve got to understand, it all began with […]

The Instagram Fracas

Evolve or die. Every time a tech company capitulates to its audience and rolls back the future it’s a mistake. The best example being Netflix saying it was going to become a streaming company and the hoi polloi bitching that they still needed to rent DVDs by mail. Who’d want to stream movies? Well, despite […]

Mailbag

From: Tim Palmer Subject: Sandy Roberton Bob, I’m completely devastated to report that my manager of almost 40 years, the legendary Sandy Roberton has died. I first met him while I was engineering for a German producer/client of Sandy’s called Zeus B. Held in London. We were working on the Dead or Alive album. Sandy […]