So we’re in the dressing room and Tom and Joni Mitchell are discussing open tunings. Tom had just finished up the first set with "Panama Limited", a compilation of Bukka White numbers.  And Tom and Joni were reminiscing about the days back in Detroit, when they met, when the old blues men were still revered, […]

Just tell them BORIS SENT YOU! It had a white label.  At least that’s how I remember it. My mother bought our earliest 45s.  She got a kick out of "Big Girls Don’t Cry", "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" and "Purple People Eater".  But I bought "Loco-Motion" and "Monster Mash". It was […]

If you have not seen this yet, please do so promptly.  Fascinating. Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’ Famous Toby Mamis Shove this up your ass Bubble Boy. What bugged me about Will Pugh’s e-mail is his denigration of a 200,000 member core audience.  He was worried without the bubble stunt […]

We didn’t buy "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo".  By that time, the Byrds were done.  Our first exposure to country rock was Crosby, Stills & Nash.  Not that we knew that’s what they called it.  We just knew "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" sounded so GOOD! I remember being at my buddy Marc Goloff’s house when he […]