I was working for a crook movie producer and we’d started a record label and through the attorney du jour, they kept on changing, abandoning ship once they realized they were never going to be paid, we got a connection to Eric Burdon, and we sauntered down to the Country Club in Reseda to make […]

SONG READER A new album from Beck Hansen It’s a publicity stunt. Unable to sell an album, people no longer interested in what he has to say musically, Beck has made an end run around the music business and gotten his old fans and techies excited, and has them spreading the word better than any […]

I just heard “Nice, Nice, Very Nice” on the satellite. It’s turning to fall. The light’s just a bit different. We’re sliding down to the end of the year, we become more serious, more introspectful as autumn approaches. And just as I was ascending Benedict to Mulholland, Vin Scelsa started talking about a song utilizing […]

This is what it’s all about. You see prior to “Workingman’s Dead”, not only had almost no one east of San Francisco heard the band, they thought their music sounded like their moniker. Heavy and dark, somewhere between Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, whose eponymous debut would come out shortly thereafter. The previous albums were […]