Last night I heard "Baba O’Riley" on my iPod.  For all the file naysayers, did you forget the revelation of listening to music on your first set of headphones?  You feel so CLOSE!  You hear things you never heard before, even when the music has been squeezed to fit on the tiny hard drive in […]

"Nothing I Can Do"Ben Taylor You’d love this if you only heard it.  Imagine a brand new seventies JT song, wouldn’t you kill for that?  Instead of the perfect but bland drivel he’s been releasing since 1985 and "That’s Why I’m Here"? I was parked at the light at Pico and Sepulveda and I heard […]

I was stretching late last night and "California" came on my iPod. I have a ritual.  Every time I cross the California border, I play this song.  At least I used to, when I drove a 2002 with a "Blue" cassette riding shotgun in the passenger seat, ready for insertion. I always saw "California" as […]

I was raised on the radioRaised on the radioJust an all-American boyI found my favorite toy I love my iPod on shuffle, but it’s no match for a deejay’s selections. That’s what we’ve lost on terrestrial, the concept that there’s a single individual, making choices, spinning what HE wants to hear, not what some consultant […]