I was reading "Relix" and found out that Mudcrutch had a new EP.  I immediately fired up my computer and started searching Rapidshare.  I needed to steal this yet-to-be-released live recording.  I needed to hear the 15 minute take of "Crystal River". But it didn’t come up immediately.  So I decided to do a little […]

Downstairs at the NAMM show they house the booths of the wannabes.  Selling guitars made out of composites, accessories one could see no use for, it was depressing to walk by and see the purveyors staring into space, or talking on their cell phones. Maybe some of the companies will break through.  One booth was […]

I saw Gene Simmons yesterday in the Hagstrom booth at NAMM.  I’d like to tell you there were groupies, clamoring to be added to the tongued-one’s Polaroid collection, but there were just a few geeks, looking at this intelligent man not quite as smart as he’d like us to believe who’s great at selling and […]

Bob, We’ve never actually met before, but I feel like I have read hundreds of your emails over the years and they were all forwarded to me by my father, Gary Kurfirst.  I know he agreed with a lot of what you had to say about the music business and he admired your writing abilities […]