Burt Bacharach Meets the Brady Bunch…on Psilocybin (Revisited)
Sean MurphyI've written several times about the greatest American band that never quite was, Love, here, here and here. Today, with summer not quite over, I have some thoughts about the…
R.I.P. Joan Rivers
I may have more to say about Joan Rivers. I may not. What is there to say (other than: if you want to know what drove her, what gave her…
R.I.P. Glenn C. (Remembering Glenn Cornick and Jethro Tull’s ‘Stand Up’)
Glenn Cornick was, of course, Jethro Tull's first bassist. He and Ian did not get along (something that can be said for most of the other 10,000 ex-Tull musicians) so…
Mellow My Mind Or, A Lesson in Life Imitating Art
Check this out. i. Baby mellow my mind, Make me feel like a Schoolboy on good time… Summer 1989: I was that guy. Like many other lost causes, I decided…
Writing and Marketing Books in the Digital Age: Part 2
More from the aforementioned blog post: Flash forward to 2013: I am releasing my first book this month, deciding, like so many musicians and, recently, writers, to go the independent…
Writing and Marketing Books in the Digital Age: Part 1
I talked in some detail about the process (before, during, after) of seeing a memoir go from PC to the public eye, in this post. This spring, I had the…
Streaming Services: Savior or Disruption? (Revisited)
Last week I had the opportunity to speak with good friend and industry veteran Jason Herskowitz (more about him HERE). In my capacity as an industry analyst at the Consumer…