I almost wrote about James Taylor a couple of weeks back, because he’s giving free guitar lessons on his Website, actually, since I was last there, he’s posted one more: James Taylor guitar lessons Although I gave up playing the guitar decades ago, I was stunned that a musician of his caliber seemed to be […]

He’s a real Vermonter. When I went to college, the Green Mountain State was not blue, but red.  Fiercely independent people eking out a living on rocky land in bad weather.  Before the Internet, before cable TV, Vermont might not have been as far off the grid as Montana, but the locals never got in […]

Everybody knows you’ve got to have an iPad app. But the L.A. "Times" doesn’t have one.  That’s what happens when you focus on the bottom line instead of the future, you get left behind. Oh, there’s a $1.99 iPhone app, but that’s like watching on a tiny cathode ray TV when there’s HD.  Something that […]

There’s no cheating in music! I’ve been reading Matt Taibbi’s book, "Griftopia".  Love the attitude, but most of what’s in there I already know, except for the explanation of the gas price increase back in 2008, remember that?  I do.  Suddenly I was debating driving an extra mile or two to save a dollar or […]