1. THE INFECTION It’s either a song or a video, you hear it or see it and say to yourself I WANNA DO THAT! That’s what created classic rock in the U.S., everybody seeing the Beatles on “Ed Sullivan” and picking up instruments and playing in bands. The trappings always count. But they can never […]

Movies and MTV, they’re both in the dumper. Statistically and emotionally. We heard for a decade that digital photography was going to kill film, that Kodak was not prepared. But it never seemed to happen. Then, seemingly overnight, everyone had a digital camera and Kodak filed for bankruptcy. Just because the future isn’t here yet […]

I’d like to tell you I’m the kind of guy who fits in. Who’s been on an endless winning streak. Well-adjusted and happy. But that would be untrue. My life is about spectacular peaks and long stretches of valley. And what’s got me through, what’s carried me to the next peak, has been music. And […]

JIM McMAHON Sports Illustrated cover HE can’t remember his Super Bowl victory, not me. I mean come on, I’m gonna forget Refrigerator Perry?! Once upon a time, mainstream media reached everybody, not only the seven o’clock news, but “Time,” “Newsweek” and “Sports Illustrated.” Now SI puts Jim McMahon on its cover, with a lengthy article […]