I used to buy my records at Granny ‘N Grammy. I know, I know, the hipsters went to Rhino, on Westwood Boulevard. I shopped there too, and met Harold and got insulted by Jeff Gold, but I found the promos better at Granny ‘N Grammy. Actually, NARAS made them change the name, to DiscConnection, as […]

Tonight is one of those evenings when it’s fucking great to be alive. Did you see that baseball game??!! Just when you think it’s passe, trumped by football, even the NBA, baseball sneaks up on you and illustrates why it’s the best sport ever. It’s never over until it’s over. A football game can be […]

James Taylor was on the cover of "Time" and from there it was downhill. Each album thereafter less lauded and less commercially successful. Although it had the hit "Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight", "One Man Dog" was unjustly ignored. The second side is the closest anyone’s gotten to the "Abbey Road" suite since. But […]

I’d turned around two days before. In Salt Lake City the weatherman was a god. When you live to ski, you become addicted to the forecast. And that’s all we had back then, the TV forecast. Which was imprecise and more of a guess than truth so when they said it might snow in northern […]