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Let me tell you how to get a job with a major record label. It's easier than you think.
First, start a fan club of some kind; I chose to honor Mr. Ed, the
talking horse. I then published a newsletter for the MR ED FAN CLUB
called The Horse's Mouth. And by publish, I mean use an actual
typewriter; type a story onto a piece of paper and draw a logo for the
top part of the newsletter, and make xerox copies. Not color copies,
but ordinary black and white copies. One or two pages will do. This is
how I did it in the early '80's.
Next, mail a copy of the newsletter to your very favorite record
company, the one you would actually work for if you could work for any
record company in the world. Do not, under any circumstance, mail the
newsletter to other record labels, not even your second favorite,
because that would be a disloyalty to your favorite label. And it could
result in you being hired by the second favorite instead of the
favorite.
San Francisco, long known as a bedrock in rock 'n' roll history, finally joined the ranks of modern day festival destinations last weekend as the inaugural Outside Lands Festival came down on Golden Gate Park for three days of live music showcasing a diverse array of genres from 65 bands on six different stages.
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Deeply seeded in the heart of a sprawling land known as Los Angeles is a band called Love. Forever connected to this city and its spirit is the sound of the group, whose cathartic songs range as widely in style as the place from which they were born.
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Early in 1977, Waylon Jennings invited Emmylou Harris to play for a party at his house in Nashville. She needn't bring her entire band, he said; it would be an intimate, acoustic affair.
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Oh, no. Andy's up on the roof again. The last time the world saw Andy Zwerling on the roof of his suburban Long Island home was on the cover of Spiders In The Night, his first album. That was in 1971.
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Randy Newman is one of the finest songwriters. While that seems obvious, it's apparently still news to most of the record buying public. He's become better known as that guy who's always nominated for a Grammy for his film score work and as the guy who sings the theme song for Monk.
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I've been to scores of music festivals over the last 40 years but I never had a better time or heard more outstanding music than I just experienced at the International Festival de Jazz de Montreal. The festival actually made money for its organizers, and since it's a non-profit that money will go towards funding even more concerts for the lucky people of Montreal.
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Neil Young has a 24-track mind, turned on all the time. There's always a restless bevy of endeavors in simultaneous states of planning and completion, each of immediate importance and constant excitement. On this Midsummer Day in the northern California redwoods not far from the Pacific Ocean, Young is in the role of both director and inventor. At once.
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Gregg Allman once told me that he hated the term Southern rock. Rock 'n' roll, he pointed out, was created in the American South, so all rock is Southern. To call something Southern rock, he argued, was redundant. "It's like saying, ‘Rock rock.'"
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It should have been easy. It should still be easy. It was not easy, and it will never be easy. This story condenses several stories into one. This is the story of the Mr. Ed Fan Club, the story of how I became almost famous for a few years, and the story of how I crashed and burned, and then learned to survive disaster.
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The concert that changed my life happened in April of 1968 at the Fillmore East, just days after Martin Luther King's assassination began a year of shattering events that reshaped American history.
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