Felix told us that he was supposed to be a classical musician.  His mother had him taking piano lessons three times a week, he didn’t know what rock and roll WAS!  But then she died, and some kids at school asked him if he wanted to join a band.  Wanting to integrate, wanting new friends […]

I dig the Mamas and the Papas at ‘The Trip,’ Sunset Strip in L.A.And they got a good thing goin’ when the words don’t get in the wayAnd when they’re really wailing, Michelle and Cass are sailin’Hey, they really nail me to the wall! If I thought really hard, I could remember the name of […]

As I exited onto 26th Street, after buying Dannon coffee yogurt and Caffeine Free Diet Coke at Ralphs, I heard the Real Time Newsreel on XM’s 60s on 6.  It was January 23, 1961, the date of President Kennedy’s inauguration. There was no school that day.  There was too big a snowstorm.  But by the […]

Felice asked me why "Every Little Thing" was my favorite Beatle song. I told her it had to do with "Beatles VI".  How I didn’t buy it. It started with "Something New", that’s when I broke my streak.  I felt it was a rip-off.  I already had all the songs on the second side on […]