I bought it the day I went to see “Last Summer” with my mother at Fairfield U., it was a screening with Frank and Eleanor Perry in attendance. I remember Frank saying they only used source music, that there was no score. And I was instantly wowed by Barbara Hershey, I didn’t seem to remember her from “The Monroes,” and honestly I didn’t quite get the rape scene at the time, this was before the #MeToo movement, this was before I was sexually active, this was long before we knew that Richard Thomas would become famous as John Boy and that Bruce Davison’s hair would go prematurely white. And when the web exploded, certainly after the year 2000, I looked up Catherine Burns, I always want to know what happened to people. Not much in her case. But checking up on Wikipedia just now I found out she died a year ago, of a fall and cirrhosis…when the spotlight fades and you get old do you turn to alcohol?

That’s one thing that’s not written about, how the older you get, the less you want to go out. You can never drop by. I’m not a big fan of Sebastian Maniscalco, but he does an amazing riff on this:

Sebastian Maniscalco: What’s Wrong With People?

(I know you’re inundated with links, but you should really click through on this one, because Maniscalco nails it and you’ll laugh and smile at the same time.)

There’s this talk about how the older you get you can’t burn the candle on both ends, but I’m not a big believer in this, actually I never liked to burn the candle on both ends, I hate being tired and in a fog. And the concept of people doing coke for days and never sleeping, that doesn’t sound fun to me. Although I do love to stay up all night, but I want to sleep the next day. But the bottom line is older people don’t go out just for the sake of it, they’ll go to an expensive dinner with their friends, they’re just not out at bars hunting for action. My point here being that for many boomers self-quarantining is not the big deal it is for younger people.

Searching for the best night of my life, and to be honest I had quite a few, I imbibed plenty, but then you never scale the heights again and you feel lousy the next day and something happens that makes you give it all up, at least that’s what happened to me. I never loved the taste of alcohol, I never hungered for a beer, but if you wanted to have fifteen and seek the aforementioned best night of your life, I was the person to call.

Also, the funny thing is the more money people have, the more worried they are about costs. Kids’ll pay fifteen bucks for a watered-down drink before adults will, but I’m digressing.

I instantly became a huge fan of the Perrys, that’s what happens when you see someone live, same deal with a good band, and went to see their next flick, “Diary of a Mad Housewife.” That’s the one that starred Carrie Snodgress, who went on to live with Neil Young. I knew who he was singing about in “A Man Needs a Maid.” That’s when music and movies were intertwined, not by soundtracks, not by financial impact so much as being on the bleeding edge, the essence of the cultural zeitgeist. You’d go to the movie and come out numb. Like after “The Last Picture Show.” Maybe the last time this happened was in ’79, with “The Deer Hunter,” now you leave the movies and want to get a meal, after all, the empty calories on screen don’t fill you up.

I probably would not remember the day I bought “Strange Days” if it didn’t coincide with the “Last Summer” screening. My mother made me go. My mother is a culture vulture. Staying home was never in her playbook until now, contradicting what I said above, there are always exceptions, but in today’s gotcha culture personal police are constantly informing offenders of exceptions, as if they denied the essence of what was said.

So I’d taken the VistaCruiser in the afternoon to buy the album.

But I’d had very little time to play it.

I’d skipped “Strange Days.” I went straight from the debut to “Waiting for the Sun” and “The Soft Parade.” I might be the only person who liked “Soft Parade,” the critics hated it and have been piling up on it ever since. Of course, the hit was “Touch Me,” which I never loved, but I could not get enough of “Runnin’ Blue” into “Wishful Sinful,” and what came next, of course, was the title track.

When I was back there in seminary school
There was a person there
Who put forth the proposition
That you can petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the Lord with prayer
You cannot petition the Lord with prayer!

People used to quote this to me all the time. But no one has recently. It’s like everybody’s lost their energy to be clever, to connect through art, the oldsters are all about possessions and lifestyles, where they are on the socioeconomic ladder, even though they professed they all wanted to be in it together back in the sixties. That’s the biggest change I’ve seen, income inequality. There are certain things people can do that others will never be able to. Like in the “Times” today, they talked about two girls taking the same class at Haverford. One was sequestered at her parents’ mansion in Maine (and it is a mansion, at least for a second home, you can see a pic here:

College Made Them Feel Equal. The Virus Exposed How Unequal Their Lives Are.

and the other was working her parents’ food truck in Florida.

Now after being excoriated by the critics, the Doors went back to basics on “Morrison Hotel,” but they didn’t get as much ink, and this was before every burg had its own underground FM station, when most people only heard the hits.

And then Morrison died, and critics have been piling on ever since, but they all seem to agree the last album, without Paul Rothchild, “L.A. Woman,” is really good.

Now I never ever hear anybody talk about “Waiting for the Sun” these days. However, “Love Street” epitomizes the sixties more than all those documentaries, it sounds like it was cut in L.A., with sunshine and opportunity, which is why everybody wanted to move to California, they wanted to be free.

But you hear even less about “Strange Days.”

Until now.

1. “Strange Days”

This was no “Break On Through.” “Strange Days” was not a Stones album opener, at best it was an introduction to what followed. It was good, but it was not spectacular, it was not something your friends had to hear when they came to your house, which was a regular activity when we all had different albums and played them for each other.

2. “You’re Lost Little Girl”

Dark. Sure, the Doors had radio hits, but it was their darker material that bonded their fans to them. Hit music today is not dark. After all, when you construct a song by committee no one opens a vein and admits their flaws and foibles, in a group you want to fit in, and you might be able to call yourself a “geek,” but “loser” has never come into favor.

I bought “Strange Days” in the fall. The days were getting shorter, and when it’s dark outside, it’s the more personal, darker tracks that resonate.

3. “Love Me Two Times”

Don’t trust the statistics on this. The web will tell you that this made it to #25 on the singles chart, but you never heard it on AM in the New York area. Oh, you heard it on FM underground radio, but that was not for everybody, certainly not yet.

And listening right now on the Genelecs, via Amazon Ultra HD, I’m stunned how good this sounds. That changed the music, the poor reproduction methods that started to become de rigueur in the nineties, when suddenly a boom box was a stereo. And now reproduction is so bad, through tiny earphones, that the bass is emphasized in recordings and all nuance is lost. So, even if you want to take a lot of time to make an exquisite sounding album, almost no one is ever going to hear it that way.

4. “Unhappy Girl”

We were unhappy. At least I was. There was no web, there was no way you could connect with like-minded people all over the world, instead you were either popular or you were not. And if you weren’t, you spent a lot of time in your home, listening to music, fantasizing, dreaming, that you were in the bar with Jim encountering an unhappy girl, thinking that the two of you would connect.

5. “Horse Latitudes”

Huh?

No one else was doing this. And since we played these albums from beginning to end, we knew it. It seemed like artists testing limits, something that is not part of the mainstream today.

6. “Moonlight Drive”

The sixth song on side one, which was actually a lot at this time, people had started to go down to five. Sure, you could make a double album and have almost sixty minutes of music, but this was long before the seventy-odd minute CD era when there was too much music to digest, the single-oriented web is a reaction to that.

A good track, that once again, made one think of Los Angeles, after all, we’d seen enough movies of this.

And now, I’m gonna do what Deep Purple did when I went to the Wiltern to see them perform “Machine Head” in its entirety, I’m gonna flip the second side and save the best for last, as Vanessa Williams sang. You know, when the snow comes down in June. Actually, I’ve seen that, and if I ruled the world it would happen every year. I loved this song so much, I taped it from MTV so I could hear it whenever I wanted to, this is what you used to do before the internet. And last year I had dinner with Ms. Williams and she was so forthcoming and open, most celebrities are on guard, but if they feel simpatico, they’ll open up and tell you anything. You see artists are a tribe, and even though most people love the work, they don’t truly understand those who made it.

4. ‘When the Music’s Over”

A poor man’s “The End,” at least that’s what it seemed like to this listener, even though my understanding is its creation predated the issuance of the initial LP. I liked “When the Music’s Over,” but it seemed pedestrian compared with “The End,” it didn’t quite resonate the same way.

3. “I Can’t See Your Face in My Mind”

Dreamy. Part of the album, but not really memorable.

2. “My Eyes Have Seen You”

It struck me back then how there were two songs in a row about seeing, didn’t offend me, but I just thought there was somebody involved who would nix this. Did you read the obits of Bill Withers? Columbia told him how to do it, so he just stopped. Another reason why today’s era is better than the old one, however we do have miles to go to coherence.

1. “People Are Strange”

Once again, don’t trust the stats. They say “People Are Strange” made it to #12 on the singles chart, but the truth is most people didn’t hear it until FM rock radio was ubiquitous, then it became a staple, maybe played infrequently, but enough to the point everybody knew it.

People are strange, definitely, but not as strange as the era we’re in.

We don’t know if we’re gonna live or die, whether to be on total lockdown or ease the rules just a bit, whether only old, infirm people will die or it could happen to anybody. There are no answers. We’re used to answers, look at the web, you can look up anything! But when it comes to Covid-19…

One thing is for sure, we were unprepared, and the virus is still ahead of us, we’re still trying to rein it in, get control of it. Meanwhile, people are still denying it’s a big deal.

It’s eerie, just like this song, just like “Strange Days” itself.

That’s why “Strange Days” endures, it’s strange and a bit distant itself. I can’t name another album that sounds like it. If they were looking for a hit single, they were so far off the mark it’s funny. I mean the next album had “Hello, I Love You,” which seemed to be a blatant attempt for radio attention, with an interesting sound, but vapid lyrics. And, unlike anything on “Strange Days” it was in your face. Hits grab you immediately, get stuck in your brain but never migrate to your soul. It’s the album cuts, that which is left of center, that resonates and changes your life.

So, “People Are Strange” has been running through my brain every day for weeks.

But I don’t think I’m the only one.

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The big news today comes, of course, from the governor of Georgia:

“Georgia governor says he didn’t know asymptomatic people could spread coronavirus”

Well, I’ll say he’s either lying or dumb but I’ll bet on the former. We live in a world of no consequences, one in which the elite can get a Covid-19 test and bribe their kids into a good college and the hoi polloi are ill-informed and unaware of the levers of power, never mind knowing how to use them.

Taken in concert with today’s “New York Times” pictures, you’d think there’d be consequences, but there will not be.

“Where America Didn’t Stay Home Even as the Virus Spread”

Pictures don’t lie, and this one is horrifying, but don’t expect this to move the needle either.

And speaking of the “Times,” scroll down to read the top ten states with the most deaths per capita, and the top ten infected counties per capita.

Louisiana is number five in deaths. Florida is number six, the governor finally relented and told everybody to stay home, but only when Trump told him to.

As for counties…

#1 is Blaine, Idaho, where Sun Valley is located. Proving once again, the richer you are, the more you travel, the more your business is based on travel, the greater the odds you’re gonna get infected.

#10 is also a resort area, Eagle County, where Vail and Beaver Creek are located.

But number nine?

Dougherty, Georgia. And the governor just issued a stay-at-home order yesterday?

But, once again, don’t expect any of the above to change minds. There are two sides, and either you’re on one or the other.

Today the “Times” did an analysis of the right wing/Fox position:

“Alarm, Denial, Blame: The Pro-Trump Media’s Coronavirus Distortion – Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing commentators turned the pandemic into a battle of us vs. them – the kind of battle President Trump has waged for much of his life.”

Bottom line? It’s the Democrats’ fault.

Yes, that is what right wing pundits and Fox are saying.

Rail all you want, but it’s not gonna make any difference.

But do you know what might make a difference?

Attacking the Murdochs.

“74 journalism / comms professors + journalists have written an open letter to Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch about the network’s coronavirus coverage”

This is a good start.

Let me tell you how business works.

You start at the top, with the decision makers, if the person you’re interacting with can’t say yes, bypass them.

This is especially true in the music business. That A&R guy up your rear end? Chances are he doesn’t have signing power, he’ll butter you up for eons and then come back to you and say his hands are tied, his boss doesn’t want to sign you. Either you need to know and make contact with the boss, or you have to have a representative, like an attorney, who can make that contact. In most cases you’ll learn you’re wasting your time, the label just isn’t interested, they like you, but won’t sign you. As for label heads saying they trust their people, that’s hogwash too, because if something is hot enough, they jump right in.

Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are not pariahs.

But you could make them such. All it would require is an organized effort, which the Democrats seem unable to construct, unless it’s an inside job.

“How ‘Never Bernie’ Voters Threw In With Biden and Changed the Primary – After Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire and Nevada, his campaign hit a roadblock: a wide range of Democrats who would do anything to stop him. Joe Biden became their vehicle.”

Finally, some truth. We’ve been hearing for weeks how Bernie blew himself up, nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is he was winning so much it was clear he was going to be the candidate and the Party and its voters got together to stop him. Candidates dropped out, media attacked and people were convinced they had to vote for Biden to stop Bernie.

But they still don’t like Biden.

You need to read Karl Rove’s piece in today’s “Wall Street Journal.”

“Biden’s Weak Election Strategy – Instead of leading, he panders to Bernie Sanders and criticizes President Trump”

I don’t agree with that headline whatsoever, once again, it’s just the right working the refs. But if you read the article, you’ll learn:

“It also found that only 24% of all Mr. Biden’s supporters were ‘very enthusiastic’ about him, compared with 53% of Mr. Trump’s.”

“‘Deja vu,’ writes ABC News. Hillary Clinton’s ‘very enthusiastic’ score was 32% in September 2016.”

What do we call this, hate-watching?

If you’ve got a big personality, if you take a side people are drawn to you, either positively or negatively. This is not only Trump, but Fox News itself. Thank god that the right criticizes Rachel Maddow, that means they’re paying ATTENTION!

So, the right defined Hillary, that’s why she lost, it’s more about that than Trump’s “virtues.”

But Trump is gonna kill Biden in the debates. Biden couldn’t even stand above his competitors in the Democratic debates, and when it came to going one on one with Sanders, he employed the right’s technique, he just lied:

Biden Is Still Lying About His Positions on Social Security Cuts, the Bankruptcy Bill, and More

The left lets this slide, but the right does not when there’s something at stake, when it’s challenged. The right is gonna amplify Biden’s faux pas to such an extent that even the left will nod their heads in agreement.

I still think Biden wins in the end, I think the anti-Trump sentiment is just that strong. Look at 2018, and focus on the fact that all the media had that one wrong, days after the election we found out the Democrats triumphed, but the news is all about a snapshot, they want eyeballs today, forget about the trends.

So, the numbers from Karl Rove’s piece? They’re from the ABC News/Washington Post poll, so don’t tell me they’re skewed. Yes, this is the poll that has Biden beating Trump by only 2% points. Once again, one thing we’ve learned in the last twelve months is how fast things can change, can you say Elizabeth Warren, can you say Covid-19?

Now right wing media is not completely aligned with Trump. If you read the heinous “Wall Street Journal” Op-Ed pages, you’ll find that the WSJ has continually excoriated Trump for bad business decisions. But the average older Republican is watching Fox, and the younger ones are reading the “Daily Caller” and “Breitbart.” In other words, the WSJ is just for the elite, the cadre the right belittles but the people and entities truly benefiting from Trump’s policies.

So, in today’s “Wall Street Journal” there’s another story:

“China Asserts Claim to Global Leadership, Mask by Mask – Beijing is providing equipment to hard-hit nations such as Italy, drawing a contrast with the U.S. and making sure everyone knows about it”

This is very simple, you may think the United States is the greatest country on Earth, but a lot of the world doesn’t agree with you. And it’s not only authoritarian countries like Hungary, but Italy.

Sure, the U.S. has done some things right, but the government is so disorganized, it can’t get a coherent message out.

But the governor of Massachusetts and the New England Patriots can:

“New England Patriots team plane flying 1.2 million N95 masks from China to help ease coronavirus shortages”

If you’re following the Covid-19 story closely, you know that Trump handed responsibility to the states, and now the federal government is bidding against those same states for supplies. This event makes the government look like losers and the Patriots look like winners. The Patriots know how to play the game, and it’s not only Bill Belichick. Robert Kraft owns the Patriots. He got caught with his pants down, literally, and his high-priced attorneys basically got him off. Kraft knows the public attorneys are no match for the private ones. He laid his money down. Furthermore, Kraft knows a lot of the country hates the Patriots, so this one good will effort builds “the brand,” as Marty Byrde says.

Yup, Marty Byrde from “Ozark.” It started off slow in the first two episodes, then it got really good. Don’t tell me the ending, we still have two episodes left (and did you know “Money Heist” is coming back on Friday??)

But in one episode, Laura Linney, aka Wendy Byrde, is laying down the law with an elected official and she says what separates the winners from the losers is COURAGE!

Most people ain’t got it. They don’t want to hang their ass out on the line. They go with the program, they fear being ostracized. But all the winners have this courage.

The leaders of the right have courage in spades! They don’t care what you say, they just keep plowing ahead towards the destination. Will they get their comeuppance? Could happen, but the blitzkrieg is so intense it’s got the left on its heels.

So, if the left wanted to make a difference, it would have a full court press on the Murdochs. Meanwhile, airing all of Hannity, Ingraham and Carlson’s dirt. And there’s plenty. To get to the top you’ve got to leave propriety behind. And one thing the internet has taught us, no one is completely clean, everybody’s got baggage. And if you watch “Ozark,” you know that it’s all about using that leverage to your advantage.

The Democrats rallied around Biden, but they just can’t stand up to the right. They kick and they scream and it makes no difference. You’ve got to start at the top. You’ve got to make the Murdochs uncomfortable, a lot of their friends and business partners are not Republicans. The Murdochs have to risk becoming public pariahs. Business people have gotten a free pass compared to celebrities. Maybe because the business people are smart and the celebrities are not. The business people play for the long term. The business people work the system, they don’t make a play every day.

So, if the left wants to change the narrative and teach people the truth, it’s got to organize and play by the right’s rules.

But it ain’t got the courage. The left listens to Karl Rove and stops attacking Trump, Rove gets the left so unsure of itself that it’s easily beaten.

Come on, the right has been beating up on Nancy Pelosi intensely for over a year. What does she do about it? DOUBLE-DOWN! Pelosi knows how the game is played. Sometimes you have to shove the shiv in, sometimes you have to do the unpopular, the seemingly tawdry, it’s all about winning in the end.

So if you’re a Trumper, you should be laughing. Your opponent can’t even get in the ring. The Democrats can only sit in the stands complaining. And the only way you win a fight is by putting up your dukes and going on the offensive.

So, you’ll see a lot of quoting of the “New York Times” above.

The right has neutered the “New York Times,” even though every mover and shaker, Republicans as well as Democrats, lives and dies by it. The right just tells the ignorant lemmings that it’s worthless. But the Democrats don’t defend it.

And the “Times,” unlike Fox News, is so busy trying to give the appearance of neutrality that it will not defend itself, it will not get angry.

So, as you can see, Covid-19 put all of America’s issues in stark relief.

And this is the moment of change.

Sure, we’re gonna hear about equipment and deaths and mistakes, and that’s all important, but the real battle comes in the future. The Democrats have alienated the younger generation by rallying behind Biden, and what is their olive branch to the kids? BLAME! Yup, they’re Bernie Bros uneducated on the issues, they’re unrealistic, they are the problem, their issues like the environment must take a back seat and meanwhile, all those oldsters who rallied around Biden should be thanked, even though the young people will disproportionately lose in a Biden administration. The media and the DNC have this all wrong. They got their chosen candidate, but they can’t stop beating up on their constituents.

Once again, the Democrats are disorganized and dumb and the Republicans are organized and smart.

Can the Democrats handle the truth?

I don’t think so.

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Now wait a minute, didn’t they tell us this was not going to happen? That if you weren’t over 65, the odds of dying from Covid-19 were slim, but if you were over seventy to watch out?

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From: James Risk
Re: News Update-Day 20

My 22 yr old daughter, Phoebe, lost a male friend from High school days to Covid 19. Went to the hospital with symptoms and they told him to go home where he died a week later. JR

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Speaking of which, you might have seen the post by Alan Merrill’s wife about his/her experience:

The Catch-22 wrapped in
Red Tape of getting a Coronavirus test
is getting People Killed.

It seems that the coronavirus is like Hollywood, as William Goldman so famously said: “Nobody knows anything.”

OF COURSE people know something, but in this era where you choose your own newsfeed, you may be exposed to information that is incorrect. And since our schools teach to the test, few have the power of analysis, the ability to read all the articles and construct your own educated opinion. And one thing’s for damn sure, you’re on your own.

I still get “National Geographic.” I saw it in a doctor’s office, read it there, and decided to subscribe once again. The new issue just came yesterday. One half is the optimism about climate change, the other is the pessimism about climate change. It’s interesting, there are two front covers, you flip the magazine to read each half. Are we gonna have to wait until rivers dry up and people die of heatstroke before we address climate change? The youngsters are on this, it’s their number one issue, but they’re dismissed because they don’t vote, even if they register their turnout is low. Furthermore, they’re no match for the fat cat lobbyists representing multinational corporations.

I’m sure you’ve read about Trump lowering the auto emission rules. It’s been bright and clear at night in L.A., supposedly in every metropolis, doesn’t this demonstrate that auto emissions are an issue? And Trump’s goal is to restrict California from making its own more stringent laws, even though California’s efforts have caused other states to enact their own laws and inspired manufacturers to make fifty state cars. But the kicker is, in Europe and Asia, they’re going in the other direction, they’re driving everybody into electric cars. Trump is single-handedly making the United States into a second-class nation under the rubric of making it great again. How great can it be if you’re dead or choking on pollution?

Now, Trump is freaking out. Now, he’s saying everybody is gonna die. Now, DeSantis is closing down Florida, he said he was waiting for Trump’s green light…but didn’t Trump say it was all up to the states? And if that is so, how come California can’t have its own auto emission rules?

I know, I know, I’m beating up on Trump.

But the best thing I’ve read about this today is by my frenemy Kara Swisher:

“Fox’s Fake News Contagion – The network spent too long spraying its viewers with false information about the coronavirus epidemic”

Bottom line… Swisher and her doctor brother could not convince their 80-something mother to self-quarantine, BECAUSE FOX WAS TELLING HER OTHERWISE!

This is the country we now live in, where science can be contradicted by a feeling, where news is about profit and scoring points for your team, and educated people are seen as elite and therefore must be written off.

Like Adam Schlesinger.

Schlesinger and his Fountains of Wayne bandmate Chris Collingwood met at Williams, one of America’s finest institutions of higher learning. And this intellect and education informed the band’s music. The lyrics were far from “moon in June.” The audience was so dumb, they didn’t realize “Stacy’s Mom” was tongue-in-cheek!

Honestly, it took me a while to get into Fountains of Wayne, the inspiration for which was even featured in “The Sopranos,” a nod to the act. But the third album, the one that actually contained “Stacy’s Mom,” “Welcome Interstate Managers,” is a big favorite of mine, if you listen you find it hard not to sing certain songs at certain times.

Rock and roll is dumbed down. Hell, it took a long time to accept Frank Zappa, but now there’s no humor extant, it’s all about bludgeoning the listener over the head with heavy sounds and dumb lyrics, but if you actually went to college, if you can actually cogitate, your experiences are wider and FOW referenced them.

But in rock and roll you put on your leather jacket, make the devil horns and denigrate everybody with a brain.

But it wasn’t only the lyrics, but the hooks too.

I’m gonna make a playlist, I’m gonna put it at the top of this screed.

I’m starting with “Peace and Love,” the groove is so great you’ll like it even if you don’t listen to the lyrics:

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont
Open up a bookstore or a vegan restaurant

If you grew up in the Northeast corridor, if you went to college prior to the turn of the century, you’re smiling and laughing simultaneously,

Then there’s “All Kinds Of Time,” which the NFL used in its promotion, when you hear it, you’ll remember.

Then, “No Better Place.” You’ve been left, alone…this song nails it, without being dreary and maudlin.

And then “Hackensack.” He’s nowhere, but she’s somewhere, and he’s still waiting for her. This is akin to George Jones’s “He Stopped Loving Her Today, but for those who grew up north of the Mason-Dixon Line.

And then “Valley Winter Song” and “Fire Island.”

And of course, “Stacy’s Mom.”

And Tom Hanks built an entire movie around “That Thing You Do!”

And of course Schlesinger co-wrote the songs for the Broadway version of John Waters’s “Cry-Baby,” and so much more!

I didn’t know Adam.

But listening to “Hackensack” tears came to my eyes, because we’ll never be graced by Schlesinger’s genius ever again, and he was far from done, he was heavily involved in “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.”

I’m just plain mad.

Someone could have prevented this.

Who knows, maybe Adam Schlesinger had underlying conditions, but I do know the “leaders” of this country worried about themselves and not the public. And what the public lives for is art, other than sex, everything else is superfluous, but music never gets any respect.