Could it be that major labels and mainstream media foist endless hip-hop and vapid pop on the marketplace because they don’t know how to SELL the road bands?  In other words, is it 1967 all over again? Yes, "Are You Experienced" came out in 1967.  Did it have any mainstream traction?  Of course not.  What […]

"It Ain’t Easy"Ron Davies The best track on "Ziggy Stardust" is "Moonage Daydream". But the most surprising cut is Bowie’s cover of Ron Davies’ "It Ain’t Easy", which ends side one. I’m trying to replicate a sampler album I got from A&M in my freshman year of college.  Oh, I’ve got Free’s "I’ll Be Creepin’", […]

Now even I want to fuck John Taylor. I only know Steve Jones as the guy who used to ride his motorcycle right up to the front door of his apartment in Beverly Hills, right next door to that of my quasi in-laws. Well, I know Jonesy as the guitarist of the Sex Pistols. But […]

What kind of crazy fucked-up world do we live in where two competitors spend each other to death, dragging their stocks down, to the point where the FCC has no recourse but to allow them to merge. At least Sirius knew it was about content.  The XM’ers had some fancy idea that the word "satellite" […]