Where were you when you first heard Frampton Comes Alive? Seems like a ridiculous question? Not for me. I remember it like it was yesterday. Especially the first song I heard, “Lines on My Face.” I was a junior in high school and had stopped off at my friend Scott Cummings’ house after school. Nothing unusual … Read more
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the last decade has turned into a bizarre melange of “artists” seemingly harmonized only by being in the music business at some time. Madonna, the Ramones, and last year’s questionable “long overdue” inductee Chicago are indeed strange bedfellows. Then again so were Leonard Cohen and Janis Joplin … Read more
Netflix – Gilmore Girls a Year in the Life. Not perfect, but full of beautiful moments. There were a few nice one-liners (What was the exact moment you became a Mamet play?), David Foster Wallace references, and a Hamilton send-up, “Stars Hallow Musical” that was sublime. This section featured a scene-stealing Sutton Foster (and her former … Read more
This past week it was announced that you could no longer buy 11 albums for one penny as Columbia House – the most famous of the “record clubs” of the 1970’s – finally called it quits. More lament for this aging baby boomer. Several weeks ago I shared similar sentiments about how the modern-day versions of what … Read more
The Background – Boom in Electronics I grew up in a special time in a magical place. The time was the early 1970’s. The place was Southern California. During that time, there was a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of musical talent and new musical technologies that created a boom in consumer electronics. Before there was video, there … Read more
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