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Can I Say Roundup

Can I Say, the autobiography of Travis Barker, drummer extraordinaire–cowritten by yours truly–has been on sale for a week now, so in case you’d like to know more about the book before plunking down your hard-earned cash, I am here to provide you with coverage beyond the gossip websites: some of the best links to […]

posted 28 October 2015 in Buy My Stuff. no comments yet

On Sale Now: Can I Say

I am pleased and proud to announce that Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums Drums Drums is on sale today. It’s by Travis Barker and Gavin Edwards (hey, that’s me!): it tells the story of Travis’s crazy life, which includes playing drums for Blink-182 and the Transplants, having his mother die the […]

posted 20 October 2015 in Buy My Stuff. no comments yet

Friday Foto: X Marks the Sun

Photographed in June of this year at one of the cradles of American music: Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. The X marks the spot on the floor where singers (including Elvis Presley) were directed to stand to get the best sound.

posted 16 October 2015 in Photos. no comments yet

Album Initials Quiz

Can you identify famous albums just from the initials of their titles? For example, presented with H. O. T. H., can you puzzle out that we’re talking about Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy? (I leave it to you to decide whether the ice planet Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back is a subtle Zep […]

posted 14 October 2015 in Tasty Bits. 4 comments

Spaghetti Incident Report

When I interviewed Velvet Revolver a decade ago, I got to clear up some of the Guns N’ Roses mysteries I had long wondered about. For example: was the worst job in rock ‘n’ roll the guy who had to keep on returning Axl Rose’s microphone stand to an upright position when he knocked it […]

posted 13 October 2015 in Archives. no comments yet

R.I.P. Gail Zappa 1945-2015

Gail Zappa, best known as Frank Zappa’s widow, was reported yesterday to have died, possibly from lung cancer. My sympathies to her family and all who knew and loved her. A few years ago, when researching Last Night at the Viper Room, I discovered that River Phoenix, at age sixteen, spent many nights hanging out […]

posted 8 October 2015 in News. 2 comments