If only Creedence Clearwater Revival had been on Columbia instead of Fantasy. Not even WB.  That was the difference between the Big Red Machine and the laid back L.A. posse.  New York had a scorched earth policy. Columbia sold the record to everybody who might have an interest.  By time they were done, the album […]

My favorite Neil Young album is the first.  Which is why I streamed this. I started off with the second, "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere".  Bought it around the same time as "Deja Vu".  I needed more.  I loved "Cinnamon Girl", but the killer was "Down By The River".  I was hooked.  I turned everybody […]

I became a rabid Stevie Winwood fan when I heard the North Atlantic Invasion Force play "Somebody Help Me" at Sacred Heart University. The headliner was Vanilla Fudge.  In the middle, they had a comedian, the Hippy Dippy Weatherman known as George Carlin. But what made the biggest impression upon me was this song.  Who […]

I once stood in line with him for the bathroom. It was at Ken Scott’s house.  Remember Ken Scott?  Worked with everybody from Bowie to Supertramp? Anyway, at the time Ken and his wife lived over the hill, just off of Laurel Canyon.  They had one of those pools with the natural rocks jutting up […]