My copy of "Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy" got lost in a divorce.  My SISTER’S divorce.  Maybe it wasn’t really mine to begin with.  But when I lived with Jill in the summer of ’75, I made her buy it.  Along with "Blood On The Tracks", "One Of These Nights", Wendy Waldman’s third…give […]

What is your favorite track on Led Zeppelin I? That’s my favorite album.  Along with "Physical Graffiti".  But unlike "Physical Graffiti", I love EVERYTHING on I. First it was "Good Times Bad Times". It was that guitar sound.  And Robert’s attitude.  The swagger.  That’s all you’ve got when you’re a teenager, your hopes and dreams.  […]

Did you notice that Bob Dylan didn’t appear on any of the telethons? I used to think the goal was to be the Beatles.  An act that was inviolate, that wouldn’t license its material to anybody, wouldn’t let it be in compilations or movies, who specialized in saying no because they CONTROLLED the tunes.  Yup, […]

So, did you download this Mike Doughty track yet? I liked it when I first heard it, and it’s been growing on me.  It’s the immediacy and the honesty. And the lyrics. Did you watch that "60 Minutes" segment on the echo boomers?  The key, their GOAL, is to be a member of the team.  […]