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Daniel Glass & Amanda Palmer at Canadian Music Week

I just interviewed them, this is what I learned… DANIEL GLASS 1. Word of the year…RELENTLESS! That’s a key to Daniel’s success, his unflagging devotion to getting it done. 2. Last year’s word…INSPIRATION! You can’t create if you’ve got no inspiration. Keith Richards told Daniel to go to Marrakesh, Daniel did, he’s traveled the world […]

Trinity Taverna

I can’t resist the carbs. And I’m insulin resistant. Which may account for my hangover this morning, even though my alcohol days are decades behind me. Yup, that’s what my nutritionist says. I eat bread or pasta and my sugar spikes and I get high and then I crash. But the problem is I can’t […]

Food For Thought-The Skip

“The Skip” This is what you’re up against. Used to be the hard part was getting your track on the radio. Now the hard part is getting people to listen to the end. We’ve gone from a captive, limited marketplace to one in which everything is available and you can get me to click, but […]

Supermensch

The music business died with Live Aid. We can debate when it was born, whether it was with Bill Haley, Little Richard or the Beatles, but it was truly done after that July day in 1985, which was a victory lap Woodstock could only dream of. This wasn’t just 400,000 on Max Yasgur’s farm, the […]