Archive for the 'Books' Category


Harold Bronson’s Book

“Time Has Come Today: Rock and Roll Diaries 1967-2007”: https://tinyurl.com/3ze3m94d I couldn’t put it down. And I wasn’t planning to read it at all. I figured I’d skim it, tell Harold about some positive points and move on. But I was hooked, I was gobsmacked, because this was my life. I tell my shrink all […]

Jann Wenner-This Week’s Podcast

Mr. Rolling Stone. Jann has a new book of interviews entitled “The Masters.” We discuss the artists and more. (Note: This was recorded on Monday September 11th, prior to the publication of the “New York Times” interview and the subsequent controversy.) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jann-wenner/id1316200737?i=1000628682964 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/906f2c72-6eeb-44d6-9504-e6e54a28f728/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-jann-wenner

Such Kindness

https://tinyurl.com/3mv95f7x “‘I want you to know that the way I grew up, I guess I was wired to live small, if that makes any sense. See, I came from people with low expectations. All my life I haven’t been able to get past that.’” I was interested in the book from the beginning, not that […]

Battle Of Ink And Ice

“Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media”: https://tinyurl.com/yu3n73vw With all this hype about BookTok, I decided to do a deeper dive. A waste of time. What we’ve got here is women, and a few men, testifying as to their love of a […]