Archive for the 'Live Shows' Category


Buble At Staples

If you go to a good show, when you get home you can’t fall asleep, you toss and turn all night, and when you wake up the next morning, you’re wasted. I feel like I’ve been hit by a Mack truck.  And I had my last sip of alcohol decades ago.  As for sleep, I […]

Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival

This is so right, even I’m dying to attend, and I’m not that big a Wilco fan! 1. Context Major labels will ask who you sound like, they don’t want anything unique, just something similar to what came before. Now it’s about creating your own context.  No one has done this better than Wilco.  They […]

Long May You Run

The closing ceremonies, hell, the entire coverage of the Olympics seemed to be made for a customer that doesn’t exist, who lived back in the pre-Internet days, when the fact that NBC broadcast in color was enough to satiate those stuck in front of screens without clickers, sentenced to watching endless commercials or forced to […]

James McMurtry At The Mint

I often wonder what it would be like to go to college today. When I went to Middlebury, not only was there no Internet, there were no DVDs, and if you were really lucky, you could get one TV channel, with snow.  A couple of times a week we’d go to Dana Hall for movies, […]