What if your dream doesn’t come true? I wanted to be a baseball player.  My parents humored me, took me to Yankee Stadium, but as the years passed, I got the subtle message that this wasn’t a reasonable occupation.  I thought it was because my parents were judging the players, long before they made twenty […]

Rubber Soul All these places have their momentsWith lovers and friends I still can recallSome are dead and some are livingIn my life I’ve loved them all On the door of my mother’s refrigerator is the story of my life. We sat on the tarmac for two and a half hours.  At first it was […]

Do you know the song "Bitter Creek", off "Desperado"? "Desperado" was a failure upon release.  The album didn’t break the Top Forty, and neither did the single, any of them.  Those standards, "Tequila Sunrise" and the title track, they had no impact, the record was a stiff. Not that the label and the band didn’t […]

When Al Kooper was shopping on the King’s Road, Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll’s version of "Season Of The Witch" was playing in all the shops. Al Kooper was kicked out of his own band.  Well, not exactly, it was like working for the man.  They froze him out, they forced him to quit.  And […]