1 I felt sorry for Bryan Adams.  He had to go on first, during the daytime, he had to warm up the crowd. The layperson thinks it’s effortless.  That you make it and then it’s clear sailing.  But you’ve got to sing for your supper every night.  You’ve got to deliver every night.  You’ve […]

What’s with these Australians and their Gibson SG’s? Paul Kossoff died on an airplane.  That was bad enough, but Richard had a whole tour booked with AC/DC as his opening act.  And now the band was in London with no tour, nowhere to play.  Trying to earn his keep as an agent, Richard booked Australia’s […]

"This is probably the best song ever written and here’s the best singer in the world, Mr. Richard Ashcroft…" Chris Martin Now THIS is IT!! This was the performance there was the most scuttlebutt about, the one that everybody was talking about, the unexpected moment, and it DELIVERS! I mean is Richard Ashcroft a star […]

Can you live without the Pink Floyd performance from Live 8? Not me. And there you’ve got it.  A system that’s not set up to meet demand.  An entrenched bureaucracy so out of touch with its consumers that it confuses desire for acquisition for piracy. MTV doesn’t respect the music. EMI doesn’t respect the music. […]