“Turn and face the strange ch-ch-changes” “Changes” David Bowie The Beatles were dismissed as teenage tripe until “Yesterday” and “Michelle,” the backwards vocals of “Rain” and “Sgt. Pepper,” and the adoption of the act by Leonard Bernstein and others in the pantheon of artists respected by establishment. The Beatles wiped out everything that came before […]

This is how the music industry and the Democratic party lost control of the national consciousness. Both remain in the past, when today’s world is all about the present. Twenty years ago it mattered what Eminem had to say. Ditto Springsteen back in the last century. But they no longer impact the culture. They’re both […]

Re: Nick Gravenities Thanks for paying tribute to Nick. I have a lot of great memories of Nick. It’s interesting that he has a current album out. I’m honored to have played on it while remembering rehearsing with Nick in his parents basement in Chicago in the early 60s. So much happened between then and […]

Trailer: https://t.ly/8_M5q If this happened in America… We’d still be talking about it and we’d never get over it. What you’ve got here is a documentary on the Nova Music Festival, you know, in the Israeli desert on October 7th, where people were killed, raped and taken hostage. Now the truth is war is not […]