I don’t know why “Dream Weaver” survives and “Love Is Alive” has been forgotten. I knew who Gary Wright was, but I didn’t know his music. Because Spooky Tooth got no airplay anywhere I lived, and in the seventies you had to buy an album to hear it, and nobody I knew owned any of […]

I haven’t been able to hear. That’s a bit of an overstatement, but not by much, and it’s lasted almost a complete week. You see a cold was going around the condo, and just when I thought I’d escaped, it bit me in the ass. But you’ve got to know my personality, nothing’s gonna stop […]

We’re driving fast From a dream of the past To the brave new world I most certainly was. I made a deal with my parents. I’d go to the Mitzvah Corps if they’d allow me to go to summer ski camp. You see they wanted to go to Europe, and ski camp was only ten […]

It’s my favorite Van Halen song. Once upon a time, I had a free subscription to AOL when you had to pay by the hour. As a result, I checked out every nook and cranny of the service, from the chat rooms to the dating boards. And after lurking for a while, I decided to […]