LISTEN TO HER HEART You think you’re gonna take her away With your money and your cocaine Tom Petty not only fought to keep his records cheap, refusing to be the first act to charge a dollar more, he also told his label he wouldn’t change the above lyric for radio. Yup, they wanted “cocaine” […]

1. The major music business, the “new music” business, is built upon radio, it depends upon it. 2. There’s a fiction that we still live in a monoculture. This concept has been blown apart on television, where there are five hundred channels available, but the Luddites in radio still believe the Internet didn’t happen, that […]

I can’t watch myself, but maybe you’d like to. I don’t want to be one of those people trumpeting my personal appearances…on Friday I’m in Philadelphia, come on down! But as a reader of my words…maybe you’d like to see me live and in action, the man behind the b.s. I didn’t know this was […]

SO YOU WANT TO BE A ROCK ‘N’ ROLL STAR So you want to be a rock ‘n’ roll star Then listen now to what I say Just get an electric guitar Then take some time And learn how to play We all took lessons. First it was Peter, Paul & Mary, the folkies, suddenly […]