I went to the Universal Amphitheatre, it will always be the Universal Amphitheatre to me, last night. We used to salivate, waiting for the two page announcement in the Sunday Calendar section of the "Los Angeles Times".  The bookings for the cut in the hill open air bowl where music THRIVED in the seventies.  "Miles […]

Last night on KLSX a caller in Orange County, an early TWENTYSOMETHING, reported that he had paid $4,000 for front row tickets to see Paul McCartney. Yes, that was the topic.  Ticket prices.  What was a fair price. Stunningly, the only people complaining that prices were too high were those who never go.  As for […]

Greetings from 38,000 feet.  Although by time I send this I will be on the ground, in D.C.  I’ve got this hankering to hear "Girlshapedlovedrug" by Gomez but the MP3 is on my other computer, and I haven’t synched my iPod since I added it to my iTunes library.  If this plane had Net access, […]

I’m going to print more Coachella responses.  So that people don’t accuse me of being biased, I’m not going to edit them and am only going to exclude those that are completely redundant and incomprehensible. Now it took ME forever to slog through these.  So, I wasn’t going to reprint them, I was done.  But […]