I read with great interest your commentary on the recent Jeff Beck biography.  Although I have not read it, I share your desire to get a definitive story to unlock the enigma of Jeff Beck.  I say this after working as his publicist at Epic Records back in the ‘70s, and later serving as his […]

Amy Lee is a force of nature. She’s everything the competitors on “American Idol” and the rest of the TV competition shows want to be. But in addition to being able to sing, she can write and play too. This trifecta used to be the bedrock of the music business. And it still is, flavors […]

I wanted the Sammy Hagar book, what I got was typical paint-by-numbers rock biography that delivered information, some of which I wanted to know, but didn’t answer the true question that motivated me to read this book in the first place… WHO EXACTLY WAS JEFF BECK! This is why I don’t read most music books. […]

Last night I went to a gig and the opening act was bad. I don’t mean terrible, completely unskilled, but if you asked someone to leave the house for this…they wouldn’t. Oh, some people did. This was a club, holding a few hundred, and it was not full and this woman did her best to […]