They met on Craigslist. Simon Ward was already in his twenties and felt it was now or never, either he was a songwriter or he was not, you either start or you’re left behind, so far all he had was the name, which he’d posted on MySpace, that’s how far back the story goes. And […]

Last Saturday night I went to the Levitt Pavilion to see Peter Asher, Billy J. Kramer and Denny Laine. But Billy J. had an infection, he couldn’t travel, his place was taken by Terry Sylvester, of the Swinging Blue Jeans and the Hollies, and Sylvester was… Awful. I know, maybe there was no rehearsal, maybe […]

He drives a Toyota Sienna minivan, a 2004, if it weren’t for the sideburns he’d be mistaken for a soccer mom. For far too long we’ve equated music with riches and fame. Ever since the Beatles, and then the paradigm was supersized with MTV and now too many see playing as a vehicle to somewhere […]

It was analog in a digital era. Same as it ever was except the audience had mobiles. To paraphrase that great philosopher Max Yasgur, it’s a great world where nearly ten thousand people can get together and have a night of fun and music and nothing but fun and music, and I God Bless them […]