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The Boy From New York City

Dewey Martin died. Hopefully that rings a bell if you’re a baby boomer.  He was the drummer for Buffalo Springfield, a band whose true greatness wasn’t recognized until Crosby, Stills & Nash broke through and the masses, wanting more of this incredible sound, went to the store and bought "Retrospective", Buffalo Springfield’s greatest hits.  That’s […]

Gary Kurfirst

Bob, We’ve never actually met before, but I feel like I have read hundreds of your emails over the years and they were all forwarded to me by my father, Gary Kurfirst.  I know he agreed with a lot of what you had to say about the music business and he admired your writing abilities […]

Steve Jobs

He’s gonna die. That’s what I thought after reading the following article: ‘Hormone imbalance’ raises question of cancer Apple cultists never believed Steve Jobs was ill.  They bought the rationalization for his non-appearance at Macworld.  Apple didn’t own the conference.  The timing of the show didn’t always fit the company’s product cycle.  Apple was pulling […]

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

I read in the "Wall Street Journal" that bowling is making a comeback.  I’m not talking about the wii version, which is almost as good as the real thing, but the one with the sixteen pound balls and the oiled lanes.  The one I was religiously addicted to in the early sixties. That’s where I […]