I was sitting in the shrink’s office telling him about Friday night.  The on-sale debut of the new "Harry Potter". Felice and I drove to Village Books around 11 p.m. and encountered a line down Swarthmore, of kids who probably had never been up at this hour before, unless it was two years before, when […]

Access.  Colonel Tom Parker and Peter Grant limited it.  They realized that rock and roll wasn’t only the music, it was also the myth. That’s what MTV destroyed.  The myth.  We found out rock stars were just like us.  And this was completely disillusioning.  Because we want to BELIEVE!  We NEED to believe.  In something […]

Not many people survive getting kicked out of their own band. At this point in time, that big hit Blood, Sweat & Tears album featuring David Clayton Thomas is a period piece. Hear "Spinning Wheel" on the oldies station and you turn it off. Stunned that you endured it back in ’68. But hear ANYTHING […]

They think we’re fucking idiots. Used to be that music was the bastion of reality, it was where you went for truth.  But ever since Clive Davis went from zero to hero, completely out of the mainstream TO the mainstream, and every other label followed his hit/dreck formula, music has been a joke.  Made for […]