From: Peter FramptonSubject: Re-Rhinofy/I Wanna Go To The Sun Dear Bob, I am verklempt you would choose this track. It is one of which I am very proud. Nicky Hopkins was a dear friend and piano playing genius! I had the privilege to play guitar on two of Nicky’s solo albums while he returned the […]

In a couple of years Howard Stern is gonna retire from the radio and I don’t know what I’m gonna do with myself. Hi. I was just driving down Sunset Boulevard in the Palisades and the road was closed. An SUV had jumped the guardrail and ended up on its side. Kind of like NASCAR, […]

This is not really my thing. But I find myself deeply affected. I won’t say the Beastie Boys were the Beatles of their generation, but they too tested limits and were decried by oldsters and embraced by youngsters. Their party anthem was ubiquitous on MTV when that channel still meant something. And unlike too many […]

They’re the new radio. As a result, you’ve got to exercise tender loving care, you’ve got to be a deejay, you’ve got to earn your listeners’ trust and keep it. We’ll only tolerate a fifteen or twenty percent tune-out rate. I was forwarded Esquire’s "Songs Every Man Should Listen to 2012" and you shouldn’t. But […]