So I’m hiking in the mountains and it’s long past midnight, since I got hung up downloading the entire Doobie Brothers catalog after hearing a song on Slacker, and I’m listening to Radiolab thinking about virality, how it’s no longer about highfalutin’ gatekeepers telling us what to listen to but a bunch of sneezers, regular […]

Some records you only have to hear once. And then you’ve got to hear them again and again and again. It’s easy to do it just like everybody else.  That requires no imagination, no risk.  When you fail you shrug your shoulders and say it’s not your fault.  When you succeed you smile but you […]

Hey, Bob: That’s ME drumming in the video of TIME WON’T LET ME!!  Some things are better left in he past, and when this video started showing up a few years ago, I was pretty embarassed.  I was 18 years old, the manager’s wife had cut my hair and given me the clothes to wear, […]

Tom King died! Tom WHO? So I’m sitting on the plane reading the obituaries.  My father used to be addicted, would wake up my mom on a regular basis saying GUESS WHO DIED! She hated it, and I didn’t get it, but now I’m addicted.  And I don’t know why.  Maybe it’s the compartmentalization of […]