I blew ninety minutes on this last night and my only regret is it ended. I famously say I live in California because of the Beach Boys. And if you don’t believe me, you’ve never heard “California Girls”. But by time I’d graduated from college and was footloose and fancy free, the music had changed. […]

He should never put out an album. I’ve seen him twice. Once at a private party put on by his record label, the other time at Coachella. I didn’t get it in the private club, I didn’t think his original material was that good, but I did love his cover of “Third Stone From The […]

Re: Income Inequality Killed The Music Business Bob: This is Bonnie Hayes, a songwriter and musician from the SF Bay. You and I have exchanged email before. Always enjoy your posts! I’ve been teaching at the Berklee College of Music all summer, in their regular 12 week college program, including several advanced classes of students […]

There’s great music today, there is in every period, but why were the sixties and seventies such a fertile era, why did we get not only the Beatles and the Stones, but the entire British Invasion, the San Francisco Sound and the great acts of FM radio? You’ve got to start in the U.K. Every […]