Business is good, but it’s meaningless. You can look at the concert grosses and be stunned that this many people are paying this much money to go see these acts, but really, it’s about the audience, not the performers. Now in the sixties, venues had seats. Even clubs. Into the seventies too. And then they […]

Hold on, wait a second, don’t shoot the messenger! So I’m sitting in the waiting room at the UCLA Medical Center and I’m reading this new book from the Trouser Press: “Wake Me, Shake Me: New York City, the 60s & the Pop-Rock Youthquake”: https://www.trouserpressbooks.com/wake-me-shake-me I wasn’t planning to read it. I was just skimming […]

Last night I went to a gig and the opening act was bad. I don’t mean terrible, completely unskilled, but if you asked someone to leave the house for this…they wouldn’t. Oh, some people did. This was a club, holding a few hundred, and it was not full and this woman did her best to […]

Are the heartbeat of America. This is why we triumph. People come up with concepts, products, they innovate… Never underestimate execution. Ideas are nothing without execution. But the idea comes first. The problem is America does its best to squeeze out the creativity of its populace. Via education. Teaching to the book. It did not […]