Spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/3jmOoHf I was listening to the Top 100 of the 1964 “Billboard” chart on shuffle. And I heard “Baby, I Need Your Loving.” Now the truth is 1964 was absolutely dripping with hits. Go back and you’ll be astounded. To the point where you were not starving for great new music, it was […]

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 […]