This is why the Democrats lost. I’m not watching the Grammys, and who cares. Of course I tuned in for the lame opening. I heard it was going to be “I Love L.A.,” but I expected the man himself, Randy Newman, instead of Dawes and a coterie of the half-dead. Either do it right or […]

1 Isn’t that Fred Tackett? Dealing with seating by the side of the upstairs bleachers… I heard “Slow Turning” in the background. And I sneaked a look forward and… There was this white-haired guy wailing on guitar and… I scanned the Troubadour stage and I saw Billy Payne on keys. And Kenny Gradney was on […]

1 Deadheads are like the Democrats. There’s an orthodoxy. If I write about the band I hear from all these Gen-X’ers setting me straight, even though I saw the band way before they did. Even happened last night. People were boasting how long they’d been into the Dead. They first saw them in ’78! I […]

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