Never work with kids or animals. I grew up watching sports with my mother.  My father might go to a Super Bowl party to mix whiskey sours and tell jokes, but if you asked him how many yards for a first down, or how many plays until you turned the ball over, he’d be flummoxed. […]

Is it a coincidence that the single was posted on the band’s site right after their appearance at the inauguration pre-game show? You know who was really good at the pre-game show?  JOHN MELLENCAMP! Yes, I’m a fan John.  Run that through your twisted little paranoid brain.  To see you there with just an acoustic, […]

It’s coming from the promoter. In Aspen, Jim Lewi and Diarmuid Quinn lamented that there was nowhere to get cash anymore.  That the label couldn’t afford to fund everything.  Where was the money going to come from? Two weeks later a promoter who was in attendance laughed.  He told me the promoter was the new […]

Would the Stones play Coachella? Who gives a shit about the Stones.  But Phish fans are diehards.  Phishheads believe that Phish is God.  They trekked to see the band at its own festivals, year after year.  Is the band afraid they can’t sell a ticket anymore? This is no way to come back, playing it […]