Somebody e-mailed me an MP3 of "Tattoo" and it sounded positively AWFUL! All compressed, with the vocal right up front, and if I was a self-satisfied smugster I would have said it sucked. But when I listened to a higher res version via my $250 Sennheiser headphones, when I listened on my $1500 AUX speakers, […]

Now if that doesn’t make you want to log on to Ticketmaster and buy a ticket you probably don’t have a tattoo and never contemplated getting one, you probably graduated from college and are a winner, you never drove a mini-truck, drank a case of beer and wished you were something more but decided that […]

Could Ed be the biggest star in the U.S. by April? Could Goldenvoice be pissed they didn’t book him at Coachella? It won’t happen quite that fast, but be prepared for an onslaught akin to James Taylor and Elton John in 1970, when suddenly they went from nobody to somebody seemingly overnight. I’m stunned that […]

My dad died. I’m not gonna say it was unexpected, but when he got multiple myeloma the predicted lifespan was three years and that was already four years before. He got pneumonia in February, rebounded and came to California and went home and promptly died. After he got a chance to see the "Simpsons" episode […]