I went to the Hollywood Bowl last night to see Brett Dennen. Not really, the headliner was Jason Mraz.  But Jason’s manager, Bill Silva, said I should check out the opening act, he said "I think Brett’s amazing if you haven’t seen him!" I didn’t see him.  Planned on it, but the 101 was a […]

I went to see Loggins & Messina at the Greek. I wasn’t going to write about it, fearful of being abused, for not only liking old music, but really lame old music.  But although Kenny Loggins sang that wimpy song about the bear, the band positively rocked.  They played completely different material from their last […]

T-shirts were ten bucks, food was edible and entrance was free. The performer was the Beatles.  Yes, that’s what Gustavo Dudamel represents, a break from the past, a long-haired youngster who spent his 10,000 hours in obscurity in Venezuela only to appear fully-formed at the Hollywood Bowl at the age of 28. Ginny having decamped […]

Tony Dimitriades sent me watermarked CDs, warning me they might not work in every player. That’s an understatement.  They froze my Mac.  Well, not the whole computer, just the disc drive, it was completely dead.  But helping a friend with this exact problem the week before, I knew there was a solution.  A bit of […]