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Santana/Stealing

SANTANA If I get one more e-mail from some over fifty Clive-worshipper telling me Carlos Santana can have another hit, I’m gonna PUKE! God, it’s questionable whether ROB THOMAS, composer of "Smooth", can have another hit. In the years since "Smooth" Top Forty has tightened up and gone down the totem pole in age such […]

Why CD Sales Are Tanking

1. The iPod After you’ve got an iPod, why do you need a CD? CDs are voluminous, not only in size, but content.  They take up too much space with too much music you don’t want to hear.  Better off to cherry-pick, just put what you WANT to hear on an iPod.  Which holds the […]

McCartney To Starbucks

Does Paul not know that NOBODY cares? Nobody wants new material from a Beatle. Oh, I think it’s a good idea for him to make a deal with Starbucks.  He’ll get positioning, and a healthy cut of the proceeds, but the album will STILL stiff. It’s been so long since Paul McCartney has put out […]

Patti Smith In The New York Times

Tell me, do you think this is good? Ain’t It Strange? By Patti Smith I have no doubt that David Lee Roth would be able to say something that TRULY captures the spirit of rock and roll.  But, he’s not part of the intelligentsia, he’s not CONNECTED! Never forget that Judith Miller worked for the […]