Archive for the 'Movies' Category


The Gregg Allman Movie

Everybody’s dead except Jaimoe. Who actually comes alive in this flick in a way we’ve never seen before. Now the funny thing is I lived through the ascent and continuation of the Allman Brothers, but now they’re in the rearview mirror, and without a champion, without songs that get endless repeats on the radio (other […]

The Peter Asher Movie

Speaking of Peter Asher… I was reluctant to watch this movie, because Peter is a friend and this music is so near and dear to my heart. I guess I didn’t want anybody in on my secrets, I wanted to hold them and my passions alone. And a lot of those stories are here, about […]

The Michael Jackson Biopic

1 He’s dead. The media has been positively shocked that a film with uniformly negative reviews is doing so well at the box office. After all, isn’t Michael Jackson a child molester in a zero tolerance era? Look at Cesar Chavez, he was scrubbed from modern life within a week. Whereas with Michael Jackson new […]

The Billy Idol Movie

1 You reach a point where you no longer believe. I was doing an interview and I was asked who my heroes were. Stunningly, I’ve never been asked this before. Normally you put a dime in my jukebox and you get endless spiel, these stories are embedded in my DNA. But I was stumped, I […]