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 […]

I needed to take a shower. Some things are immutable.  You’ve got to show up for appointments on time.  But I couldn’t get up from the computer, I needed to hear "Fireflies" one more time.  And then again.  And again. That’s the mark of a hit record. Not where it is on the chart, how […]

Meat Loaf never made it in L.A.  Spin "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" and an Angeleno will be flummoxed.  Who’s Phil Rizzuto?  Sure, decades later we’ve heard it, but "Bat Out Of Hell" was in no one’s collection, the record got no airplay.  And Billy Joel got little more. Sure, "Piano Man" was a hit.  […]

If you download the explanatory video, the skinny male in the Trailer Choir says the inspiration was the girls at the fair.  Wearing their bikini tops, sporting their muffintops, their beer guts. I know we’re supposed to never eat.  We’re supposed to be so thin that we look skinny on television, which legendarily adds ten […]