Who Has a Better Guitar Sound – Eric Clapton (on Fresh Cream and Disraeli Gears) or Jimmy Page (on Led Zeppelin I)?

Music Industry Newswire COLUMN: This is not about who is the better guitar player, viz, Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page. Maybe the question (and their theoretical rivalry) stems from the fact that both of them were in that smokin’ slab of 1960s pop-psychedelia, the Yardbirds; [...]...

Posted on 20 February 2012 | 1:02 pm | Read more...

Rash of Tuba Thefts Plagues Los Angeles

Music Industry Newswire COLUMN: The Los Angeles Times recently has carried several stories about a series of tuba thefts that have plagued local area high schools, colleges, bands, orchestras and other performing aggregations. A quick www search reveals that L.A. is not the only jurisdiction [...]...

Posted on 9 February 2012 | 11:24 am | Read more...

REVIEW: John Bowen’s New Synth – the Solaris

Music Industry Newswire REVIEW: Yes, OK, it took him a long time to get them done, and some people still haven’t gotten theirs from the initial production run. I am pleased to advise, though, that it is well worth the wait. Ours arrived from Europe [...]...

Posted on 31 January 2012 | 2:08 pm | Read more...

On the Front Lines at NAMM 2012

Music Industry Newswire COLUMN: For immediate dispatch from the wild and wooly frontier south of Disneyland – after a decade of resisting the blandishments and imprecations of colleagues I finally re-attended this year’s NAMM convention (Jan. 19-22, 2012). NAMM of course stands for the National [...]...

Posted on 21 January 2012 | 12:41 pm | Read more...

Dancing at the Sundance Film Festival

Music Industry Newswire COLUMN: The Sundance Film Festival begins today (January 19th) in Park City, Utah, and runs for an exhausting 10 days through January 29th. When I was an executive in the independent film business I attended Sundance regularly. I’ll never forget the frisson [...]...

Posted on 19 January 2012 | 12:12 pm | Read more...