There’s very little new information in this book, but that does not mean it’s not worth reading. Unlike that new Stones book you see reviewed positively everywhere. The publisher asked me if I wanted a copy, I was intrigued from the very first page, but as I’m reading I’m wondering…HOW DOES HE KNOW THAT! Mick […]

It was hard getting into another book after “London Falling.” We’re searching for excellence in a world of me-too. And even though we all use the same language, the same alphabet, certain artists rise above. Then again, how many people creating deserve the term “artist”? That’s one thing that struck me in “So Old, So […]

This is one of the two best-reviewed books of the year. As for the other, “Transcription”…forget about it. Now “London Falling” is nonfiction whereas “Transcription” is fiction, and I vastly prefer fiction, but… There was an interesting article in the “Wall Street Journal”… “Dad Books Are a Dying Breed – Sales have been sliding for […]

1 I live in California because of the Beach Boys. That may be hard to understand if you’re under the age of 40, as there has been a multi-decade campaign to vilify the state. But if you grew up in the sixties, California was a dream. The bleeding edge was on the west coast of […]