I’m in Vail, Colorado.  For my birthday. Every year I check the schedule, to see if the mountain will remain open until April 22nd.  This year, with Easter being so late, it’s open until the 24th, only the second time in my relationship with Felice. Yes, we’re staying in the condo.  Paid for by Felice’s […]

Everything old is new again. So I’m in the bar at the Royal York in Toronto and I’m introduced to the Sennheiser rep. I do what any obnoxious denizen of the cultural landscape would do.  I ask her about Beats. I tell her I’m a dedicated Sennheiser fan, they’re my headphones of choice, I have […]

Indulge me. I’m downloading live shows.  And what’s incredible is I got this Billy Joel show from ’72 wherein his voice is still pure and high and when he sings "teller" in "The Ballad Of Billy Kid" I hear something I never did before, I get insight that has previously eluded me, even though I […]

Back when music was scarce, when it wasn’t free, when if you didn’t buy it you couldn’t hear it, unless you sat by the radio and hoped the station had taste as broad as yours, which was never ever the case, dedicated musos combed the cut-out bins.  That’s where we bought what we wanted to […]