There’s just not that much money in it anymore. I wish the problem was streaming, I wish there was a single oppressor keeping players from scraping by. But there’s not. Times have changed, the cultural landscape is so different that anyone from the pre-internet era would not be able to fathom the business. Anyone who […]

Subject: my Charlie Watts story While I was a college music student in the mid 1970s I had a summer job as record clerk at a Sam Goody record store in midtown Manhattan.  My job was to keep the shelves and racks of LPs, cassettes and 8-tracks organized and to assist shoppers in finding what […]

“Charlie’s good tonight” And now there are two. Well three if you count Bill Wyman, but he split from the band thirty years ago. This really fucked me up. In a way I’ve not felt since the death of John Lennon, which was also a surprise. I knew Glenn Frey was sick. Bowie? As great […]

Since the article showed Connie as an older female, implying she’s seen rough times, I’d thought I’d send Mark Farner’s most recent photo. No freaking prize. You can’t find current photos of the original members- those I found, beyond the years of the band, showed they weren’t aging too well either. It’s a shame we […]