Respect The Architect
Not one to make mountains out of Mooghills, but I take exception to the New York Times’ obit of the venerable inventor: “At the height of his synthesizer’s popularity… progressive rock bands like Yes, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer built their sounds around … the timbres of Mr. Moog’s instruments.” Can’t let […]
Yesterday
From a lot less… Yesterday was one of the weirdest I have had since returning to New York, begun on the streets of the South Bronx and ending in the Hamptons. In the morning, at a parade talking to U.S. Rep Jose Serrano about folks scraping and scrapping to find $8-an-hour security jobs. In the […]
Steaks and Snowtires
As a music industry vet, I am ambivalent about what we euphemistically call “independent promotion.” Before I entered the business, “payola” meant bribery. After a few years in it, the money my companies paid to indies (read: “middlemen”) and the gifts we gave to DJs were simply the cost of doing business. And here’s the […]
Anybody Thinking What I’m Thinking?
“Don’t piss on my head and tell me it’s raining!” Conservatives are already sweating Bush about Gonzales being too “liberal” a replacement for Sandra Day O’Connor, the Supreme Court justice who gave her notice last week. Why not instead nominate someone beloved by all Americans? I predict a smooth confirmation process. HBO’s “Entourage” won’t be […]
Viking Lie Kings
This one goes out to Ronnie Brown, just to let you know after jawing about Jews, I’m back on the job. Wherever real Black men are crying out for help in the white man’s search for nonexistent Black men, I’ll be there. Reported this yesterday as part of my work at Columbia: VIKING LIE KINGSBy […]