Grab your board and go sidewalk surfin’ with me That’s from "Sidewalk Surfin’", by Jan and Dean.  I was a huge fan.  One of the first albums I bought with my own money was "Command Performance", a live show containing all the group’s hits including this.  I played that LP so much it turned grey. […]

Hollow Talk by Choir of Young Believers This video does a disservice to this song. I think Robin Millar and I are on the same page.  But you wouldn’t know it by the e-mail he sends me.  He’s frustrated over change, he’s worried artists are being lost in the shuffle, he’s worried we’re going to […]

I’m reading this book about Todd Rundgren entitled "A Wizard A True Star, Todd Rundgren In The Studio".  It’s a recitation of all his productions, even albums I’d never heard of, I was stunned at how much work he did before engineering the Band’s "Stage Fright".  Everywhere you turn it’s Gladwell Time, evidence of 10,000 […]

Music is supposed to be fun.Someone sent me this video by Kyle Andrews: Kyle Andrews "You Always Make Me Smile" It’s got in excess of one million views.  It wasn’t premiered on "Ellen", he’s not on a "label", he’s doing it for himself.  But the song isn’t that good.  Yet he’s got notice.  Notice used […]