Is there anybody interested in record company news who doesn’t work for a label? What we’ve had in the last twelve months is financial engineering. The disappearance of Capitol (they call it a merger, what next, a comeback?), and the elevation of supposedly internet-savvy Elliot Grainge to the head of Atlantic, as if music were […]

I was The Electric Flag’s last roadie and the roadie for Mike Bloomfield & Friends so I spent a lot of time with Nicholas both on and off stage. While Nicholas was a great front man I don’t think his behind the scene work is well known. For instance, in the early 60s he was […]

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He died. Actually, a few days back, but I just found out last night. I was on my final go-round in the “New York Times” app, and I went into the obituaries, and there he was. They’re dropping like flies. Then again, Gravenites was 85, and was living in assisted living, suffering from dementia and […]