College is lonely. At least in the beginning. Especially if you go to a sanctuary far from home, having thrown away all your friends to start over. Oh, I know it doesn’t work that way anymore. I once met a girl on a train. From New York to Boston. We exchanged a few letters thereafter, […]

How many ways did we hate Grand Funk Railroad? Overpromoted by their manager/producer, former artist Terry Knight, they could not possibly live up to the hype. And they didn’t. Supposedly they stole the show at the Atlanta Pop Festival, before Woodstock, and this message was blasted into the hinterlands where no one ever heard any […]

Classic rock is dead. Not only are the children of the baby boomers pushing thirty, in some cases exceeding that threshold, there’s a whole new generation of barely pubescent children who have never experienced free-form radio and sitting in front of the stereo listening to full length albums. And nothing angers the children of the […]

MAD LOVE The album seen as a sell-out back then and completely forgotten today is Ronstadt stripped raw and gone punk and if you don’t like it I don’t care. And if you don’t know it, you should. “Justine” Written by Mark Goldenberg and ultimately done better by his band the Cretones not on Spotify, […]