You will always feel left out, left behind, out of it. Everybody is cool in their own way. The old concept of coolness was based on scarcity. In a limited universe we look inward, in an unlimited one we look outward. Posting is not belonging, just a facsimile thereof. Everybody is a star. When there […]

They didn’t know what they were doing. All those legendary hits, played ad infinitum on transistors way back when and Sirius today? The creators were just trying to get ahead, they were just trying to get paid. I’ve been sifting through books and I came across “What’s Exactly The Matter With Me?: Memoirs of a […]

We’re only just passing through. Or, as Paul Simon once sang, “every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.” Not that Mr. Simon was in attendance. I remember when the R&RHOF began, before the building was erected in Cleveland, when all those original acts were crowding for inclusion, the dinners alternated from NYC to […]

Everybody likes to pile on. Rather than focus on the big issues, like Trump giving back to the rich, the great unwashed would rather concentrate on the foibles of a long in the tooth rapper and a greedy tech entrepreneur. Then again, that’s the world we now live in, one where everybody believes they can […]