Author: Rosie

Joe Franklin

"Mitch, did you really know Joe Franklin?" You bet I did, little Timmy! Although, to be honest, that wasn't really such a distinguishing characteristic. If [...]

Carlo Scibelli

Carlo Scibelli was one of the star-gazing guttersnipes with whom I cavorted in Central Park, all of us smoking big cigars and telling bigger lies.  [...]

Jack Bruce

I first met Jack Bruce in Stuttgart, Germany in 1995. It was a televised festival of the music of Jimi Hendrix and I was there as Vernon Reid’s tour [...]

Outkast

I produced the last concert OutKast did in NYC, probably the last one they’ll ever do. Someone just sent me this pic from that night at the PlayStation [...]

Robin Williams

A Robin Williams story from backstage at Carnegie Hall. Orchestra Room 3 is packed with rock stars and their usual retinue but all eyes and ears are on one [...]

Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger walked into our little office in the Brill Building one morning with his banjo strapped across his back. If I remember correctly he had called [...]

Lou Reed

Sad news about the passing of Lou Reed, a sonic explorer with as pitch perfect a shredded-steel guitar sound as I have heard. He could be the most acerbic [...]

Ronald Shannon Jackson

Dark day. Just got word that Ronald Shannon Jackson passed this morning. I was 19 when I first heard his music. No one had ever told me that music could do [...]

Rodney King

Rodney King was introduced to me as "Glen," the name by which his family had always known him. It was in Altadena in 1994, a couple of years after That Whole [...]

Leroy Neiman

Time for another episode in my continuing series, Encounters With Recently Dead People Whom You Might Have Heard Of. I had a couple of occasions to visit [...]
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