Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


Passion/Viewpoint/Craft

PASSION If you don’t believe it, we won’t. Passion trumps everything but craft. Once you have the skill to deliver your message, it becomes completely about how you deliver your message. This is what is absent from TV competition shows, this is what is absent from too many songs in the Spotify Top 50, this […]

Youthquake

This is society’s Napster moment. They never could kill P2P with the legal system. It took a bright twentysomething from a foreign country to save the record labels’ lunch. And now said labels are trying to survive by purchasing the distribution systems of much younger companies led by entrepreneurs. NO ONE running a major label […]

Compassion

Now wait just a second. There’s a flood in Texas and over a hundred people die and it was an unforeseen  act of God, but fire destroys homes in California and the fault lies with the mayor and the fire department and… I’m not saying I don’t care about the people who lost their lives […]

My Nakamichi 582

1 Ed Cherney told me to toss it. But he was making peace with the fact that he was going to die in a few months. I told him a bit of the backstory and he laughed and reiterated his point. The Nakamichi 582 was the ultimate cassette deck. This ain’t no Sony, no AIWA, […]