John Batdorf and James Lee Stanley, performing their acoustic rearrangements of Stones songs, some solo stuff and recounting a bunch of rock history, like how Batdorf was signed to Ahmet’s Atlantic but then asked to be switched to Geffen’s Asylum for the second album and ultimately ended up on Clive’s Arista, which is the last […]

It was positively MINDBLOWING! If you weren’t at least ten or eleven back in ’64 you’ve got no idea, you’ve got no concept of BEATLEMANIA! And that’s what was in evidence this evening at possibly the world’s most famous record store. I mean I’m standing with Felice and Peter Paterno and you can hear WHISPERS! […]

 1 And I got the one I love beside meMy troubles behind meI’m alive and I’m freeWho wouldn’t wanna be me The goal of the concert is to take the attendee, the listener, from his workaday world into the STRATOSPHERE! To scoop him up with a guitar and take him AWAY! I sat on the […]

 Now THAT was an extravaganza. Just before the show began, Barbara Skydel and I were reminiscing about the heyday of Premier Talent, when Frank Barsalona was the godfather, the Tony Soprano of his domain, keeping concert promoters throughout this vast land of ours in check, preventing them from invading each other’s territory. Barbara told me […]