What’s the aphorism?  The Iraq war is over and Iran won? We’ve been duped.  We’re in a war, a fruitless war, a losing war, a lost cause, worse than that a cause that is destabilizing a whole region making terrorism more likely, and the news media and the music business are just laying down. It’s […]

JAMES TAYLOR Well, can we call 10,000 a night a disappointment? Well, if capacity is 20,000. This is a classic JT summer tour.  I mean how many times have you seen it?  As the man gets ever-blander.  With too many backup singers and a focus on sweet singing instead of meaning. Tickets ain’t stratospheric.  This […]

How ridiculous.  Wind-Up was/is successful because it plays by COMPLETELY DIFFERENT rules from EMI.  EMI is a tightfisted company destroying team morale by constantly focusing its employees’ eyes on the bottom line.  Wind-Up is an operation wherein no fee or distance is too large if the company BELIEVES in something.  Wind-Up is the kind of […]

The hype is deafening. Last night rewinding the tape (no, I don’t have TiVo yet, don’t tell me how great it is, my goal in life is to watch LESS TV and since I bought the best VCR, for all of $120 bucks, I can use a digital mouse, which doesn’t move, but changes the […]