Dean Goodman's Blog

In keeping with Charlie Watts��� laconic mien, I���ll keep this post brief.��Sixty-one years ago, an astute newspaperman in Wellington analyzed him in just 68 words.

Some big news in Skynyrd Nation. On Wednesday, March 4, I asked a federal judge in Manhattan to unseal the Consent Order that has nominally governed the activities of Lynyrd Skynyrd since 1988.

Way back last century, when David Bowie was a starving artist who had yet to conquer space, his devoted father typed up a wonderful letter of recommendation on his behalf.

There’s something about Conrad Lozano. The next time you go to a Los Lobos show, stop leering at Cesar Rosas, the band’s totemic MC and guitar god at the far left, and check out the fellow next to him.

It’s a shame Bob Burns didn’t live to enjoy the full financial fruits of his tenure as Lynyrd Skynyrd’s original drummer. Burns left the band in 1974 and spent the rest of his life in obscurity before his death in 2015 at the age of 64.

An interesting email from Amazon/Kindle Direct Publishing yesterday, regarding my beloved memoir Strange Days: The Adventures of a Grumpy Rock ‘n’ Roll Journalist in Los Angeles:

Congratulations!

[NOTE: I’m resurrecting posts from old MySpace account] . . . The Stooges played nine songs and indulged in some Q&As with audience members at the taping of a Yahoo webcast on Tuesday [March 20, 2007].

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You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you certainly have a right to be suspicious about its size. In this case, Roger Daltrey’s badly titled and grammatically suspect Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite is just 241 pages, probably about 100,000 words.

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Back in the 1990s, the wry joke among music fans was that our CD acquisitions were mostly forced repurchases of our old LPs and cassettes.

Jim Moginie didn���t know about his Irish heritage until he was in his late 40s and managed to track down his birth parents in suburban Australia.