Hey, Bob: That’s ME drumming in the video of TIME WON’T LET ME!!  Some things are better left in he past, and when this video started showing up a few years ago, I was pretty embarassed.  I was 18 years old, the manager’s wife had cut my hair and given me the clothes to wear, […]

Tom King died! Tom WHO? So I’m sitting on the plane reading the obituaries.  My father used to be addicted, would wake up my mom on a regular basis saying GUESS WHO DIED! She hated it, and I didn’t get it, but now I’m addicted.  And I don’t know why.  Maybe it’s the compartmentalization of […]

From: ___________@___________Subject: from Tom Scholz re BOSTON – Foreplay/Longtime Dear Bob, I’m glad you enjoyed my song Long Time, even if you didn’t care that much for some of my other tunes.  My mantra has always been that music should make us feel better, a viewpoint we seem to share. Although John Boylan’s participation in […]

Don’t it. I was driving down Benedict Canyon with a Mercedes on my ass listening to "Stairway To Heaven". When Lee Abrams was in charge of XM, "Stairway" was banned, we’d heard it enough, do we ever need to hear it again?  And while I’m contemplating the lift from Spirit, Robert’s pure voice, the inane […]