What do the fans want? By now you’re familiar with the story of the Pebble, the iPhone/Android connected wristwatch. The manufacturers asked for $100,000 on Kickstarter. So far, they’ve raised $7,447,226. Why? BECAUSE PEOPLE WANT THE WATCH! Musicians are using Kickstarter the wrong way. They’re focusing on themselves instead of their fans. Most are asking […]

Bob, As one-half of the band on the original Boz Scaggs track "Baby’s Calling Me Home", I thank you for recognizing the veracity of the vibe.  It was recorded late in the evening in the winter of 1967, after the rest of the band had gone back to rented digs on Eaton Place in London, […]

We’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky groundWe’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where the highlight of a Bruce Springsteen show is not only a new song, but one that features rapping? We don’t go to the Springsteen show to look forward, […]

Feel Like A Rock Star (Duet With Tim McGraw) I thought they called it COUNTRY music. If Charlie Rich cut "The Most Beautiful Girl " he wouldn’t be able to get any airplay, because suddenly country is rock. Only it’s a watered-down, wimpy, non-threatening take on the corporate rock of the seventies. As for Hank […]