This is an anthem for the girl that got awayThis is an anthem for the world of yesterdayThis is an anthem for the rebel of my youthThis is an anthem for the risk of loving you… Yesterday my accountant told me her son got dumped by his girlfriend.  He’d moved to New York in search […]

"I and I" is from "Infidels", not "Slow Train Coming".  Mark Knopfler does play the guitar, but the keyboards are exercised by Alan Clark. Barry Beckett did play the keys on "Slow Train Coming", as well as co-producing the album, but he didn’t work on "Infidels". But, Mr. Beckett did work on Paul Simon’s "There […]

Who’s a bigger rock star, Bono or Obama? I saw U2 on Letterman, and what struck me was it was Dave’s show.  It was like U2 were members of the peanut gallery, brought up on stage at the end of the telecast to perform for the children.  How the fuck did we get here?  How […]

This has been a bleak year for me.  The gig that covered my nut evaporated.  Seemingly every year or two this occurs.  But I always have hope a new job will appear.  Right now, I don’t have that hope. I open the newspaper and find articles telling me it’s worse than everybody says.  That the […]