1 “Doesn’t mean that much to me To mean that much to you” Neil Young is beyond image. He’s lived so long, played so long, that it’s just him, sans trappings. As for his contemporaries… They feel that they’ve got to convince the audience, overwhelm them, prove that they’ve still got it, are as important […]

Re: Inaccessibility Hi Bob, For those that don’t hate Pablo Cruise … at my first meeting with the band, I was immediately taken with their incredible drummer Steve Price, and the original bass player Bud Cockrell. Man could they groove! Bud was a Southern boy and had a wonderful gritty voice that went well with […]

If you don’t get on the gravy train, you’re a hater. Oasis played five dates in America, in large venues. Let’s just call it 80k a night, even though that’s excessive. That means that… 400,000 people went to see Oasis. In a country of 340.1 million. Could they have sold more tickets? ABSOLUTELY! The Oasis […]

1 Which is half an hour away. At least. A totally different mind-set. I’m sure there are people living in Thousand Oaks commuting to L.A., but not many, it’s just too far. And just too far for the rock aficionados, the business honchos, the lifers, to drive out for a gig. This is more akin […]