Although most critics consider Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band the Fab Four’s zenith, I maintain that song for song, Rubber Soul has it beat. It is less ambitious — it’s not a concept album and the band does not take on an alternate persona. There are...
Joni Mitchell Blue To use a sports term, Joni Mitchell left it all on the field when she recorded Blue. She laid out all her cards, left nothing to the imagination. Her friends cautioned her about being so honest with her life and loves, but during this depressed...
We are writing about death far too often. The senseless carnage in Vegas yesterday, now the news of the passing of rock and roll great Tom Petty. There’s no need to list all of his wonderful songs. From the moment I first heard the jangling chords emerging from...
Walter Becker leaves us at the age of 67. Co-founder, along with Donald Fagen of the great American band, Steely Dan. Or were they a band? A case could be made that they were a duo who employed the finest sidemen available and demanded the best from them, regardless...
Phil Jackson’s lucrative five year deal ends after three seasons by mutual consent, or so we are told. Jackson does have a few years on me but I think I get his attitude. It comes down to less tolerance for the day-to-day BS that most corporate jobs require. At...
