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...SHORTLY AFTER MY EXPOSURE TO THE GENIUS of Phil Spector - the producer of "Be My Baby" - Warner Brothers Records released the double-LP "Phil Spector's Greatest Hits." I picked it up. Great record: the surreal "Wall of Sound," Spector's trademark, meaning maybe three guys playing the same bass line, four or five rhythm guitarists strumming away, two pianists playing the same chords in different registers, percussionists plugging away on maracas and castanets, a full symphony string section, and underneath it all the drums of Hal Blaine ("my five favorite drummers", according to Max Weinberg) piped through the galactic...
Love it or hate it, that's what Napster has done: changed the world. It has forced record companies to rethink their business models and record-company lawyers and recording artists to defend their intellectual property. It has forced purveyors of "content," like Time Warner, parent company of TIME, to wonder what content will even be in the near future. Napster and Fanning have come to personify the bloody intersection where commerce, culture and the First Amendment are colliding. On behalf of five media companies, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has sued Napster, claiming the website and Fanning...
When we were kids playing Pop Warner football, we used to take to heart the words emblazoned on our coach's shirt: "No pain, no gain. No guts, no glory." If you didn't feel well, you sucked it in. If you were injured, you taped it up. If you took a hit on the head--got your "bell rung," as we used to say--you just shook it off and got back on the field...
Careful readers of this space will have noticed that if you had been following the advice of Mean Josie Greene, the Kurt Warner of the "Covers" crew, you would be winning at an alarming rate. Careful readers of this space will also have noticed that if you had not been following the advice of Ms. Greene and had instead been relying on L.I. Slim and the K.C. Line, you would not be winning so very much. And you would be sad. From this, the careful reader could reasonably conclude that since Josie is off this week (something about the Jewish...
Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau travels with giants. In the introspective and eloquent liner notes to his new album, Places (Warner Bros.), he writes of the chronic, insatiable longing he suffers for distant lands and offers a melancholy quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The sad self, unrelenting...that I fled from...My giant goes with me wherever...