As promising as it sounds for Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani, and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith to get together and record an album, a couple of things gave me pause. For one, what page would Sammy be on? For all the great stuff he’s done in the past decade—and there is … Read more
Dad, Nathan, and I went to see Star Trek at the Spacedome IMAX theater tonight. We’d all been looking forward to it for a while, but I’m not an opening weekend kind of guy, so we waited a few weeks while the crowds thinned. Mission accomplished: there were perhaps two dozen other attendees. Unfortunately, at … Read more
MTV was a boon for many artists when it appeared and proceeded to completely dominate the music of the early to mid-’80s. What a wonderful new medium! Check out all of this exposure for all of these great artists! But its power was enough to destroy completely some ’70s hangers-on. Plenty of artists who had … Read more