Archive for the 'Live Shows' Category


AmericanaFest Salute To John Hiatt

1 Isn’t that Fred Tackett? Dealing with seating by the side of the upstairs bleachers… I heard “Slow Turning” in the background. And I sneaked a look forward and… There was this white-haired guy wailing on guitar and… I scanned the Troubadour stage and I saw Billy Payne on keys. And Kenny Gradney was on […]

The Dead At Musicares

1 Deadheads are like the Democrats. There’s an orthodoxy. If I write about the band I hear from all these Gen-X’ers setting me straight, even though I saw the band way before they did. Even happened last night. People were boasting how long they’d been into the Dead. They first saw them in ’78! I […]

Grammy Stuff-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in Saturday February 1st to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. Phone #: 844-686-5863 Twitter/X: @lefsetz If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

FireAid At The Forum

1 “And what it all comes down to Is that everything’s gonna be fine, fine fine” Nobody walks in L.A. Not that Missing Persons took the stage. Dale and Terry Bozzio have been divorced for eons. But we’re still here. Broken, battered and excoriated. Prior to the fires L.A. was considered a hellhole. But if […]