I opened a few shows for Meat Loaf in 1977 or 78 (wish I had kept better archives) when “Bat Out of Hell” was breaking and most impressive to me was that both Mr. Loaf (as they NY Times called him) and the brilliant Jim Steinman were both warm and welcoming and even seemed to […]

You’ve got to break the rules to win. Tomorrow in Aspen Jim Lewi is taking the exam to become a certified ski instructor. He’s been shooting me videos of the Aspen ski school director, Jonathan Ballou, whom I’ve never heard of. This guy can demonstrate the exercises, he can conform, but his skiing has no […]

There is none. Huh? What I mean is music is no longer a zero-sum game. Used to be if someone else got attention, you couldn’t. You were always struggling, swimming against the tide, believing someone else had your job, and that is no longer true. Forget number one. There is a game in the Top […]

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