Jeff H.: Re: YouTube "Just go to YouTube and plug "knopfler this is us" in the search box and you too can watch the video." Make that COULD have watched the video. When I went there, I got the following message tonight (Friday): "This video has been removed due to copyright infringement." Ed Teja: Re: […]

In the late sixties the definition of a hit started to change. It was no longer about a snappy track that could be played on AM Top Forty but something that exuded sheer QUALITY! To the point where the Doors’ "The End" could be considered a hit. At eleven minutes and with no constantly returning […]

Only 3,279 people have watched Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris on YouTube.  And that’s CRIMINAL!  You’ll be mesmerized by Knopfler’s licks, but just shy of three minutes in, when Emmylou starts kicking her legs backward in time to the music, you’ll exclaim VOILA, she’s fucking KIKI DEE! I’ve got the music in me.  And you […]

Last night I went to see Gomez at the Avalon.  Jason Colton tracked me down. Do you know Jason?  He used to work with Paluska handing Phish.  Now he’s moved on to Coran’s operation, Red Light Management.  And, in addition to looking after Mike Gordon, he’s taken on Gomez.  Which is why Jason was in […]