I’ll take you there! She doesn’t tweet. I doubt many people under forty have any idea who she is. But last night, Mavis Staples positively killed at the Greek. She evidenced all the elements that made music the preferred art form of the baby boomers, a religion. It was all about sound, it had nothing […]

They were fantastic! I was horrified by the venue. Once upon a time the Universal Amphitheatre was topless, it was a magical place that was the toast of L.A. Then they put a roof on it. So the neighbors would stop complaining and they could do shows year-round. Now it’s like the bar scene in […]

I’m not exactly sure what I saw. I expected the nearly dead, the same audience that went to see Simon & Garfunkel back at Staples in ’03. People living on Medicare and fumes who could barely stand. A celebration of the old, the way it once was. But last night was positively 2012, but in […]

I’ve been sick as a dog. You see I was hanging with Roland Orzabal, who told me his son was in an outdoor play in Bristol, and it’d been raining all summer, and his boy had gotten sick, and the illness had spread itself throughout the family, they’d just all been to the doctor. Didn’t […]