The hardest part of looking back is the mistakes are all your ownIt’s harder to say that in those letters home "Letters Home"Wendy Waldman I thought about going to Coachella.  But there was a dearth of e-mail and phone calls.  The buzz of the last two years was absent.  So, when Wendy Waldman told me […]

Nobody cares except the idiots who went. You know the festival is over when the buzz is all in the traditional newspaper.  As in there IS NO BUZZ! I ask you, would a Tool fan be interested in seeing ANY of the other acts on the bill? Or why in the fuck would the hipsters […]

If I hear one more old fart who grew up separating seeds from stems in the middle of a gatefold cover say we’ve got to save the album my head is gonna EXPLODE! What ruined this business was the single.  The individual track honed to perfection and then sold on MTV.  Suddenly, people no longer […]

The most important thing about Neil Young’s new album is how fast it was cut. Talk to a major label honcho today.  It’ll crack you up.  They’re on a GLACIAL pace.  They want you to cut demos.  Co-write.  Work with different producers.  And then, even when your album is finished, they plot a release date […]