MOONAGE DAYDREAM I’m an alligator I’m a mama-papa coming for you The first Bowie song that hooked me. It was the sound of Mick Ronson’s guitar. Bowie plucked him from obscurity and made him an icon. Ronson ultimately co-produced Lou Reed’s “Transformer,” cut his own album, “Slaughter On 10th Avenue,” worked with Ian Hunter and […]

Won’t you come out to play. I didn’t know it was a real person, a real story, about Mia Farrow’s sister who wanted to reach enlightenment faster than anybody else so she stayed inside meditating for three weeks straight. John and George were enlisted to help her see the light, the one outdoors. We knew […]

I played this for my mother. I didn’t buy “Fresh,” not at first, my initial Cream purchase was “Disraeli Gears,” way before “Sunshine Of Your Love” got airplay, I experienced it as an album, it revealed itself to me with each play, and the song that hooked me was the second side opener, “Tales Of […]

I love that Jerry wore his Nikes, dirty ones at that. That’s the essence of a baby boomer, irreverence, speaking truth to power. You don’t see no stinkin’ millennials doing that, never mind the lost generation known as Gen-X. Kids today are all about sucking up, being two-faced, doing what it takes to get ahead. […]