At least that’s what Kevin Smith called it.  The inaugural Starfucking Smodcast, with Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman. What does it take to make it? Tons of effort.  And a dream. Kevin Smith is such a good interviewer, he makes me feel inadequate.  Not only can he ask the questions we want the answers to, […]

Don Ross: CRAZY (Gnarls Barkley) I like this.  I did not at first.  At the beginning, I thought it was pedestrian, just another guy looking to get famous doing a cover. Then, he hit the chorus and I started to get this feeling inside, around the :42 mark, it was like catching someone’s eye across […]

Ringo’s a revelation! Somehow, the Beatles coming to iTunes has become a business story, but that band was always about the music.  The mania came after.  The sheer joy of playing in a group, of living your life for music, not money, was the genesis.  Watching this film you can see right through the images […]

Re-Terry Ellis Dear Bob, Back in the day before Chrysalis Records there was the Ellis-Wright Organization with a small office, I believe at 123 Regents St. with just Chris and Terry and their secretary Rose.  I knew them through Mike Vernon, my partner and founder of Blue Horizon Records original home to Peter Greene’s Fleetwood […]