I read Warren Haynes played “Come and Go Blues” at the Gregg Allman tribute. It’s hard to convey how big “Brothers and Sisters” was. Duane died in ’71, after Bill Graham had them close the Fillmore and their double album tour-de-force was released. But still, most people didn’t know who the Allmans were. No, that’s […]

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 […]