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Hot Tuna At The El Rey

Electric. If you’d have asked me whether I wanted to go, I would have said no. But my friend Steve was in from New York, and he’s their longtime agent, and we were gonna have dinner before, so… I said I was in. We went to Republique, the old Campanile space. Did you ever go […]

The Chain

“The Chain” What kind of crazy, fucked-up world do we live in where Lindsey Buckingham gets kicked out of Fleetwood Mac and the band gets better? The same one in which Glenn Frey passes and the Eagles improve. Now we know the Mac can’t sustain without Stevie, but without Lindsey…NO PROBLEM! No one doubts Mike […]

Gillum Wins In Florida

You should care. Whether you live in London or Dubai, whether you’re old enough to vote or a felon who cannot. Because the polls were wrong and Gillum won. But it was more than that. He focused on YouTube instead of television. And he didn’t triangulate, the old Clinton playbook is dead, you speak from […]

Ed King

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Spotify I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard “Sweet Home Alabama.” I’d graduated from college only months before. Talk about a weird experience. What am I gonna do next? In my case I was gonna be a ski bum in Little Cottonwood Canyon, i.e. Alta & Snowbird. My […]