“Gliders Over Hollywood: Airships, Airplay, And The Art Of Rock Promotion”: https://rb.gy/l4m82v This is the best book about how it used to be. And it certainly ain’t that way anymore. Sometime early in this century everybody started to say the record business was no longer fun. This book tells the story of when it was […]

https://rb.gy/1mvqok “‘You’re so smart!’ she said accusingly, ‘I never understood it! Why would someone so smart be fixated on pop music?’” That’s what Percy’s mother tells her. My mother went to see my shrink to complain all I wanted to do was buy records and go to concerts, couldn’t I get on the right track? […]

“Earth to Moon”: https://shorturl.at/8Fvqk I spent all afternoon finishing this book. I hadn’t planned to, I hadn’t planned on finishing it all. I tried a couple of pages a few weeks back and the style…let’s just say the writing did have a style, and it was interior dialogue, somewhat choppy, and this was not the […]

“Hollywood’s Eve – Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.”: https://shorturl.at/edrI7 1 I wish this was a movie, for if it was I’d tell you to run out and see it immediately. And although there might ultimately be a flick, it could never capture Eve completely. I know, I know, you’re burned out on […]