“Ticketmaster wants to share in the profits of the resale market by facilitating the mass scalping of its tickets — in direct violation of its own terms of use.” According to a report in The Toronto Star- https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2018/09/19/we-went-undercover-as-ticket-scalpers-and-ticketmaster-offered-to-help-us-do-business.html – Ticketmaster is actually helping people buy and then resell tickets on the secondary market, also known Read More …

With the start of the new “The Voice” season just around the corner I wonder what you all think of these singing and talent competition shows.   The opinions of some well known musicians are quite obvious: “Television and video have done a lot of damage to music. They’ve propelled people into stardom that aren’t Read More …

While not a household name, this pioneer of electric guitar playing and technique influenced Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and many others, was using distortion before most others and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Her name? Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Born Rosetta Nubin in Arkansas in 1915, she sang and played guitar Read More …