Re: Dan Hicks Dear Bob, I can’t tell you how pleased I was to read your post on Dan Hicks. First, it helped bring me out of a deep funk I had been in since his wife Clare called me Saturday morning with the news that Dan had passed. Also, it was great to read […]

This is exactly what happened in 1964. Elvis was king. And then the Beatles wiped him off the map. We had a decade of rock and roll. It had been whittled down to a formula. Sure, Bobby Darin had talent, but Fabian and the other Bobby, Rydell, were marginal players. But that was music, a […]

Is 74 the new 27? Whereas the young rock stars die of misadventure…the oldsters seem to just wear out, to succumb to the maladies that affect the rest of us. And we don’t like this, because we want our heroes to live forever. Paul Kantner was an irascible fellow who could be notoriously hard to […]

What kind of crazy, fucked-up world do we live in where a 74 year old white-haired Jew from Vermont resonates with the millennial generation more than any entertainer? One in which when the game is rigged an outspoken leader says the rules must be changed instead of preaching false hope. My radar tells me it’s […]