Well, not really. It’s just that the line from the Little River Band song has been going through my head all day… Twelve thousand miles is such a long way In this case, the singer is referencing the distance between Vegas and Sydney. But it works in reverse too. Australia is FAR! And although they […]

Deep into December 1969, I took the train into New York for my interview at Columbia University.  I remember walking up from the train station in Harlem, past the football field, onto campus where I was questioned by a recently graduated hipster completely unlike anyone I had previously encountered in the college application process.  I […]

The two biggest releases for Christmas 1970 were George Harrison’s "All Things Must Pass" and "Stephen Stills". That’s how big the southern balladeer was back then, a superstar. Over time he squandered his capital. Oh, he came back eventually, in 1977, with a CSN reunion. But it’s funny how Neil Young is seen as a […]

This blows my mind.I just received the following e-mail: Sharon Lord: I couldn’t get enough of that song. Did you see the video? I loved it because it had the whole Guns’nRoses guitar, he’s got Steven Tyler’s moves…the video is so 80’s MTV and he sings it like a rock star…he gives it everything. It […]