Taylor Swift was terrible on the Grammys. Maybe the worst performance ever. She was way off-key singing with Stevie Nicks, in front of the whole world. I’d been getting e-mail from people for years saying she couldn’t sing, but had held back from writing anything. But here was evidence.  I thought it would end her […]

1 The absolute highlight was Stevie Wonder singing “You’ve Got It Bad Girl” from “Talking Book.” History is wrong, “Songs In the Key of Life” is not Stevie Wonder’s best album, not even close, that’s “Talking Book.” The first step in the new Wonder paradigm, wherein he had total control over his albums, was 1972’s […]

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I will never forget Randy. Randy came into my life in 1986. Art Ford who came to LA, from Eugene Oregon with me, put us in touch. I wanted to move from jazz and R/B to rock. Randy was low key and willing to listen to an idea I had, for a young artist. Richard […]