Archive for the 'The Music' Category


One Night In Nashville

"In Color" If it looks like we were scared to deathLike a couple of kids just trying to save each otherYou should have seen it in color You can watch a movie where they’ve got an overpaid teenager trying to play scared, you can dial up a book on your Kindle and read a memory […]

E-Mail Of The Day

From: Peter AsherSubject: RE: Paul Shaffer’s Book Dear Bob, I have just ordered the book from Amazon.  Sounds great.  (I still read real books at home for choice – electronic only for travelling. I am a Sony guy.) I can attest to the fact that Paul really CAN play (and remember) anything – and play […]

Paul Shaffer’s Book

Is worth the price for the Dylan stories alone. Although I was addicted to Letterman in the eighties, when Paul led the Most Dangerous Band, before the switch to 11:30, when "Late Night" was seemingly an extension of seventies SNL, often as funny and frequently as inventive, that’s not why I bought this book. Yes, […]

Gabe Dixon

I went to see Loggins & Messina at the Greek. I wasn’t going to write about it, fearful of being abused, for not only liking old music, but really lame old music.  But although Kenny Loggins sang that wimpy song about the bear, the band positively rocked.  They played completely different material from their last […]