It’s a comedy show. I’ve seen Sedaris twice before, but this was the first time I realized that first and foremost people come for the jokes, they come to laugh. I’d say they come to get away from everyday life but that would assume that Sedaris made no political comments, refused to take sides, but […]

Focus on sales, they’re disproportionately counted on the chart. Although you can sell CDs and files, focus on vinyl, people buy it as a souvenir and oftentimes don’t even listen to it, but the chart doesn’t care. Make unique, multiple vinyl. So fans have to buy more than one disc. Lie. There is no music […]

They’re still doing it. Even though Jeff Hanna is 76 and Jimmie Fadden is 75. Musicians never stop, unlike civilians. Everybody I know not in the music business is talking about retiring, or is already retired, whereas musicians ten or twenty years older are still plying the boards, because they love their jobs, along with […]

1 So Neil straps on this old white Gretsch and starts telling a story. How it’s stereo. Three strings go to one speaker, the other three to another. He’s unsure of the provenance of the instrument, how someone came up with the idea, how they executed it, but here it is. And then… Neil Young […]