I gave up going to Bruce Springsteen concerts after "The Rising".  It was just too creepy.  It was an incredible simulation of what once WAS.  All effort, a Twinkie without the center.  I no longer recognized this guy. Where was the alienated fuck who needed to make music to survive as opposed to please his […]

Used to be a number one record.  You wanted that ceremony, with all the label geeks and your manager, where you were presented gold and platinum plaques, which you paid for, demonstrating your success.  But do you really want to be Lady GaGa?  Beholden to Perez Hilton?  A creature of the media?  Or would you […]

Jim Messina left, Richie Furay jumped ship for momentary success with J.D. Souther and Chris Hillman, and Messina and Furay’s replacements, Timothy B. Schmit and Paul Cotton, carried on with original members Rusty Young and George Grantham to a new label, never to have success until Timothy B. jumped ship too and a band that […]

My favorite promoter is Don Strasburg.  He doesn’t care about the label, none of the traditional metrics L.A. insiders triangulate, he’s into artist development, the desire of people to see a band and the increase that results.  If you want to know who’s up and coming, or who is not truly dead, get ahold of […]