He played "Free Bird". I could have missed it.  Too many gigs with Jackson and his band playing the same arrangements of too many lame new songs had my desire flagging.  Not that Jackson is unable to do anything good new, just listen to "Never Stop" from "The Naked Ride Home".  It’s just that when […]

I’ve got no sympathy. Remember when rock stars used to O.D?  Yup, that was the peril of being on the road, doing too much smack to the point where you nodded out and had a blind date with the Grim Reaper.  If an "artist" is injured onstage doing a circus act, haven’t we lost the […]

Life’s a struggle.  It’s the people who get us through. Speaking of the people, get your ass out to a gig this summer.  The people watching is FANTASTIC! I went to the Country Throwdown at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine.  What a shithole.  Entertainment has gone upscale.  They’ve got Danny Meyer’s Shake Shack at […]

This was done all wrong, too last century. Bottom line, today you’ve got to promote a show.  JT and Carole King had it right.  Do the intimate performance first, and then tour on the ultimate recorded product thereafter.  If Sting had made the album/DVD first, and had done a deal with PBS for pledge break […]