Bill Graham is rolling over in his grave. If only they could come up with a new Dead, a new Santana, a new Airplane that would make these venues worth going to! Irving Plaza.  What the hell was wrong with THAT name?  A long, storied history, a rich tradition that people believed in.  But no, […]

Could it be that major labels and mainstream media foist endless hip-hop and vapid pop on the marketplace because they don’t know how to SELL the road bands?  In other words, is it 1967 all over again? Yes, "Are You Experienced" came out in 1967.  Did it have any mainstream traction?  Of course not.  What […]

Roth not allowed to perform at gala honoring the band This business went in the crapper when the executives started believing they were bigger than the acts, that the audience was interested in THEM, not the performers. And why be interested in the acts, they were just tools of the machine.  Picked on their looks, […]

I don’t buy my tickets. But neither do you. I don’t pay convenience/facility fees, and if I’m lucky, I don’t even pay to park. Actually, my problem is too many people want me to go to too many gigs. But that’s not the way it is with the hoi polloi.  The hoi polloi want tickets, […]