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On Stage With The Allmans

Where I went to college, at Middlebury, in Vermont, they had what was known as the 4-1-4 system. What that meant was the first semester ended before Christmas, not typical when most schools required five classes and finals were AFTER Christmas, the spring semester started in the middle of February, and in the middle, for […]

New York City-Thursday

We stopped by at the restaurant so Felice could say hello to Michael.  Dominick Dunne was in the corner, everybody was wearing a suit, and I wondered if I had it wrong, if I’d been stuck on the shore like Allen Ginsberg in the eighties, his appearance and style befitting the fifties.  I’ve got the […]

What If They Gave A Party…

And Nobody Came: New Cars/Blondie ticket counts –Detroit, San Francisco, Cleveland, and BOSTON(!!): all under 10002 dates in NYC – each at roughly 1500

Benny On KLSX

Yup, this Sunday night on my KLSX show, from 9-11, I’m going to feature Benny Mardones, who’s going to delineate his journey from average American to hit star to the depths of drug addiction and back again. Along with Benny I’ll have the director of his documentary, Greg Ross, and the man who broke him […]