Final Woodstock?
Live like it’s 1969, die like it’s 1969. Forget that Woodstock ’99 was a disaster, so was the original edition. Sure, there was great music, over-attendance and peace, but the…
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Bob Lefsetz
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We Built This City
Grace Slick hates it. I didn’t like it when it was released, when they inserted the name of every local city for radio stations, but all these years later…it kind…
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Morgan Neville
Academy Award winner for “20 Feet From Stardom,” as well as director of last summer’s surprise hit “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Morgan Neville is the go-to documentarian. His Rick…
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The David Crosby Movie
It’s utterly fantastic. Riveting. If you were around back then, if “Deja Vu” was a staple in your bedroom, or dorm room, you’re going to be taken right back to…
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Passman Stands Up For Swift
“Scott Borchetta never gave Taylor Swift an opportunity to purchase her masters, or the label, outright with a check in the way he is now apparently doing for others.” Don…
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Taylor Swift/Scooter Braun
She should have bought the label. My inbox is filling up with today’s story about Scooter Braun’s purchase of Big Machine and Taylor Swift’s reaction thereto. It’s always dangerous commenting…
Read More Peter Noone
AKA Herman of Herman’s Hermits…need I say more? Yes, that Peter’s a fabulous raconteur with great stories, he’ll have you riveted. He’s been there and done that and is still…
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America at the Ace
It was joyous! The seventies get a bad rap. The era is seen as one of excess, as opposed to the progenitor era of the sixties, where the Beatles caused…
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And now the seller’s view. Andy Somers is an agent at APA, he works with acts as disparate as Social Distortion and Brian Wilson. Hear what it’s like to find…
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