Last Sunday night I went to the Wiltern to see Ray LaMontagne. I am not a fan of the act, but I am of the manager, so as a favor I went.  I wasn’t closed.  But the throng in attendance was.  It was a veritable babeathon.  I saw Joey Lauren Adams downstairs by the bathroom, […]

Maybe we do. The hoopla surrounding the sales of AC/DC’s "Black Ice" at Wal-Mart has superseded the scary underlying fact.  That even including digital downloads, album sales last week were down 25% from the equivalent week in 2007.  And 2007 SUCKED! If the major labels didn’t have the power known as their catalogs, we’d have […]

One of the best albums ever made is Supertramp’s "Crime Of The Century". Even though the band had two previous records, this was completely unexpected.  An album-length saga on what it was like to be an adolescent, manipulated by society, ground to a pulp, ultimately hiding in your shell.  That was the crime of the […]

Bill told me they left a lot of money on the table.  That in most markets tickets were $30-$35.  The ducat I was holding had a price of $42.50, yet I was in the sixth row.  To see Jason Mraz at the Greek! Do I really care? I remember seeing him back at the Wiltern, […]