Back when I lived in Buffalo, Mike Peters from The Alarm played a show at Nietzsche’s in Allentown. After the show, some friends and I were just hanging out at the bar up front when he came over and struck up a conversation. He stayed and talked with us like we were old friends, not […]

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5yCx2gzgolz2sctLCC8NTe?si=2f94399bd6bc4eb4 1 I used to hear from him all the time. That’s what happens when you write something positive about somebody. But time passes and they have no more hits and you don’t, which is weird, because you still feel connected. I bought the initial Alarm EP when it came out in 1983. […]

Live music sucks on TV. We all know that, and anybody who’s tried to turn it into a business has lost their shirt. Turns out you have to be there. And now that’s where everybody wants to be, THE SHOW! So I’m returning to a series on Amazon Prime last night and I see the […]

In the of 1969, between my 2nd and 3rd year in law school at UT in Austin, I got a summer job at ASCAP in the membership department. At the time, BMI had more rock acts on the charts than ASCAP. I talked my boss into buying two tickets to all the the Schaefer Beer […]