We’ve seen this movie before. Back in the nineties, with Bob Morgado and the Warner Music Group. A man with no expertise in music single-handedly destroyed the company. But it was even worse, he ultimately fired his co-conspirator Doug Morris, who went on with Edgar Bronfman, Jr.’s money to create Universal Music, which still dominates […]

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 […]

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 […]

They used to make movies like this. As a matter of fact, this Netflix series is based on a movie of the same name that was released back in 1981. I saw it at a screening. That was a big thing forty years ago. You would be walking down the street, shopping at the mall, […]