Rock Around the World

Morrissey Mercury. NR
Maladjusted

Morrissey is the pre-eminent torch singer of Modern Rock. Morrissey has a sadness in his voice I think everyone can relate to in their experience.

Obviously, by selling out venues like The Hollywood Bowl and Madison Square Garden Morrissey touches people.

Maladjusted is a touching album... sure to reach you where ever you live.

He lives in Spain.


Internet Listening Pleasure: Alma Matters, Trouble Loves Me, Ammunition, He Cried, Satan Rejected My Soul.

Brendan Lynch Mercury. NA
Fighting Gravity

Glenn Ballard's male version of Alannis Morrisette. Brendan Lynch has an interesting vocal yelp that works. This, combined with audible treatments make for an interesting listen.

More a straight rant than the sexy rave Alannis put out in '95. It's cool enough stuff. Glenn Ballard has a sensitivity for artists who stand just beyond the ranks of victim pop.

Ride has the sound of a spinner in it.


Internet Listening Pleasure: Ride, Stop Your Crying, Anybody Out There, It's Real Enough.

Big Mouth Wild Pitch Records. NA
Big Mouth

Bigmouth comes fresh out of the box with a winner. Think of School of Fish meets The Farm with moments of Morrissey interspersed and you'll have a pretty good idea of what's happening.

Bigmouth's definitely caught the Groovy Train with These Are The Days. There's a lot of ear candy on this album, a rockin' piñata full of sugary flavor.

Great Britain may not rule the waves anymore, but Britannia is certainly exporting tons of decent pop music destined to rule the airwaves on this side of the pond. Let's just say America is reaping the benefits of all the Blues, R&B, and Soul shipped to the U.K. in years past.

Kudos to Neil Dorfsman for nailing down Bigmouth's Big sound.


Internet Listening Pleasure: Nemesis, These Are The Days, Little By Little, Better Man, Circus.

Fleetwood Mac Reprise Records. NR
The Dance

The Blues has always been the part of the sandbox I like to play in best. So when I step into someone else's rock garden, it ain't gonna be no problem. The Blues is my transporter. The vehicle I use to drop in on any other genre or media in life.

Blues is beyond Music itself. The Blues is the tint in the lenses I use to gaze upon everything in this little old World. Little? Yes, little I say. The World is a very small place if the bag you carry with you on this journey is The Blues.

The Blues is all-important when discussing the collossus the civilians know as Fleetwood Mac. Back in 1992, when Ron Thompson was gigging at The Sunset Social Club, I got my first chance to hear Mick Fleetwood LIVE on drums. Between sets I walked up to Mick and tapped him on the knee, telling him how much I liked Fleetwood Mac in Chicago, 1969. Mick looked at me and said, "I'll buy that!", smiled broadly, and went back to his conversation with Ron Thompson. I wonder if any of you out there know what I'm talking about. At that time, Fleetwood Mac was an all-guy band with three gifted lead guitars, bottom and drums. They were all about 22 years old and held their ground with the Cold Blooded Masters of Chicago Blues. Listen to that record for a minute, would you?

I was so moved when I read the liner notes to the 1994 re-issue and felt how deeply Mick Fleetwood loves Willie Dixon. I have felt the personal warmth of the Dixon Family in my travels through this little old World and I miss hearing Pat's beautiful, resounding laugh, which is just like her [Pop's], if you take the time to listen to that album. I would have never met Eric Clapton, were it not for the interest The Dixons showed me. I love you, honest I do.

Emery, why you talkin' all this Blues stuff?, you supposed to be writing about Fleetwood Mac NOW. Well, in my book, you cannot understand NOW unless you understand yesterday and the future at the same time.
If you're one of the ones asking that question, you ain't never felt no MOJO in your life. Fleetwood Mac wouldn't be so HEAVY today, were it not for John McVie's and Mick Fleetwood's pilgrimage to Chicago back in the day.

The next time I saw Mick perform was at the 1994 Blues Heaven Benefit held at B.B. King's, Universal City. It becomes very clear to me why Mick played so hard that night. I mean he was throwing down that night. I've never seen Alvino Bennett play so hard on drums. That was because Mick brought the level up to the higher plain where the Blue grass grows.

About 10 months later I saw Mick sit in with Ron Thompson again. This time at The Mint. After that I'd see Ron quite regularly during 1995 on gigs where he played guitar for B.J. Sharp. Between sets, I'd always ask about Mick and how he was doing.

Emery, why you talkin' so much about Mick Fleetwood? What about the other Artists in the band? I'm getting there, give me a minute.

Mick Fleetwood is the heart of the band. Literally. Mick Fleetwood plays with his heart, the best clock in the world. Mick don't need no goddamn CLICK track! Every Mac album I've listened to has Mick's big, big heart on the tracks.

John McVie rules the underworld with his extra ordinary touch on bass. Yeah, bottom! Dig. Mick and John do not require the facility of words once they lock into a groove. Once they're in the pocket, the language is music. Watch this rhythm tandem's eyes light up when they play. Oh my God, "This ain't no party. This ain't no disco. This ain't no foolin' around!"(D. Byrne)

The Summer of 1977 was a great one for me, actually all of 1977 was. School ended for me getting my first real soul kiss from Lisa Andrews. Where are you, baby? My mother made me take tennis lessons...a gift that lingers with me to this day. And Fleetwood Mac's Rumours was spinning every 10 minutes on the radio. The specific song was Don't Stop. Man, that song made everybody happy!

Understand this. America was two years into getting used to being the LOSER of a Major Conflict in History. Peace with Dignity...Yeah, right. The dreary sight of multi-million dollar Huey Cobras getting pushed off of aircraft carriers to make room for a tide of humanity going out with the old regime was still fresh on the minds of The American Conscience. Then along comes Fleetwood Mac, offering America and the World a song of HOPE. Dig It.

Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham added a duende to John & Mick's already powerful Mojo, which is ALL over that song.

That is the ONE THING that makes Fleetwood Mac so important to me. The Mac revived Americans and transported them to new heights. Thanks, MAC.

Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks have wonderful voices that move me. Lindsey Buckingham can cut some heads with his guitar. And No, I do not hear David Gilmour!

I am so glad The Mac Is Back! The new songs are so damn strong: Bleed To Love Her, Silver Springs, Sweet Girl,... damn, Stevie, did you have to hit me so hard with your words? Dig: "I'll follow you down til the sound of my voice will haunt you." Big medicine, baby.

Don't Stop has got The Jack Swing, baby! Dig the swingin' USC Marching Band! Ohhhhhhh Yeah!


Internet Listening Pleasure: Temporary One, Bleed To Love Her, Big Love, Landslide, Silver Springs, You Make Loving Fun, Sweet Girl, Don't Stop.

The Crescent SHAMAN Speed Of Sound. NA
Long Kiss Goodbye

I wanted to say goodbye to all the Music lovers out there who may have found my writings amusing over the course of the past 27 months.

I am no longer a part of the growning Rock Around The World operation. I have in the past 27 months met some amazingly dedicated individuals who have helped to make this Music Business palatable for me. I love them all.

Meryl Wheeler, Cindy Greer and my dear Laura Cohen at Virgin, Thank You.

Thank you, Bill Bentley, Jim Baltutis and the lovely Kim Blum at Reprise. Doreen Rossato for the Chris Isaak.

My dear dear friends, Stephanie Kavoulakos & Glenn Fukishima...I love you. Laura Gold, Angelica Cob.

Wendy at Elektra. No more faxes from RATW for-ever.

The remarkable women at Epic: Heather Davis, Melissa Dragich and Stephanie Cabral.

My sweet Leo, Sharrin Summers at Hollywood Records. You are my [heroine].

The Great Independent Ken Phillips at KPG Group.

Jolyn Matsumuro at Mercury Records West. Thanks for believing at the very beginning.

Lizbeth Cassaday at Discovery. Ciao, Baby.

Liz Rosenberg at Warner Brothers, New York City.
Deb Bernardini at Reprise, New York City.

Roy Hamm at Geffen.

Eric Stein and the fabulous Jennifer A. Ballantyne at Music Corporation of America.

Judi Kerr at Capitol Records.

Sandro at Island Records, New York City.

Becky Newton at Polygram Soundtracks. I owe you big time.

Lucy Sabini, Todd Schenkenberger, Gina Orr and the Great Media Relations department at RCA, New York City.

Leah Horwitz, wherever you are.

Mitch Schneider Organization.

Everyone at Revolution.

Ida Langsam at ISLPR.

Ian at Steve Martin's Nasty Little Man

Kathy Halgas.

Shore Fire Media...especially Marilyn Leverty and Lorie Jakobsen.

Phil at The WORK Group.

Johnny Gold at Columbia Records.

The Albright Group.

Marshall Lamp at GRP and the old Blue Thumb days.

Lisa Gladfelter at Ardent, Memphis, Tennessee.

Fran Curtis and her fabulous assistant Rebecca at Rogers & Cowan, New York City.

I want to thank every Artist who ever let me talk to them. Thank you for your time. Keith Morris, Peter Frampton, Yngwie Malmsteen, Fredi Towles, Gravity Kills,
The Cunninghams, Camus, and Edwin McCain.

I'm starting to fade here, I hope I'm not forgetting anyone.

Thank you to all the Artists who dedicated themselves to their craft, inspiring a fool like me to write with my fingers the things I've felt in my heart.

Please down load what I've written and save it for posterity. I don't even have copies of some of this stuff. If the site goes, it's gone forever, baby. Hopefully I'll get around to affording my own computer and printer before RATW signs off for good. That way, I'll have something to read to my grandchildren, dig?

I am going to go to The Music Business. Hopefully, I will find some open doors. It's rude to kick doors in.

Thank you for reading. My dictionary was given to me by Peter K. Haile in 1977, I refer to it often. Mr. Haile graduated form Jesus College, Oxford University and saw some spark of a writer in me in 9th grade English class during our run through Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice. I am a graduate of The Stony Brook School, 1980. We don't mess around with The English Language there. Every graduate is completely and utterly literate. My dictionary is a Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, A Merriam-Webster. There's more about me, but I just ran out of sources and uses of funds to linger long enough to tell you while at RATW.

Please read to your children. I regret that some children may have logged on to the site and read language intended for adults in the Music Business, since my primary target ws the decision makers of this business. It is not my intention to corrupt little minds. My dialogue is and adult form of language used in the War Machine. You'll have to pull my jacket to find out what I mean.

So fuck it, I'm leaving. Look for me to surface somehwere in the grand, grand, Music Business.

Until then I can be reached at my own company, EARS/CATAPULT 310-366-9443.

Thank you Danny Lipman for the opportunity, but the beanstalk is grown and I'm going up to the Castle to get my Golden Goose.

The ILP's are all that I have left of my commitments to the business on behalf of RATW.

BEST REGARDS,

BABAHIMA,

LOVE & RESPECT

Emery Godofredo Columna
La Crescenta, CA

Maybe I'll see you in cyberspace...


Internet Listening Pleasure: Message To Love, The Isle Of Wight Festival Video/SMV; Meridith Brooks blurring the edges/Capitol, The Fabulous Thunderbirds highwater/High Street, Jen Trynin Gun Shy Trigger Happy/Warners, The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997/Reprise, Mare Winningham Lonesomers, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble at Carnegie Hall/Epic, Talk Show/Atlantic, Jars Of Clay much afraid/Silvertone'Essential, Genesis...calling all sations/Atlantic, Seven Mary Three Rock Crown/Atlantic, The Full Monty Soundtrack/RCA Victor'Fox Searchlight, Merry Clayton Miracles, Curtis Amy Sextet Peace For Love,Dusty Springfield Boxed Set/Mercury, Bean, The Album/Mercury,A Home For The Holidays/Hammer &Lace'Mercury,God Street Wine/Mercury, KISS Carnival Of Souls/Mercury, Copland Milan Entertainment, Matchbox 20 Yourself Or Someone Like You/Atlantic, Kelly Joe Phelps Roll Away The Stone/Rykodisc, G. I. Jane Original Soundtrack/Hollywood, Soak/Interscope, Caroline's Spine/Hollywood, Average White Band/Foundation,Julia Fordham/Virgin, Cellophane/Virgin, Junior Cottonmouth Bespoke/Atlantic.

The Crescent SHAMAN Speed Of Sound. NA
Long Kiss Goodbye

I wanted to say goodbye to all the Music lovers out there who may have found my writings amusing over the course of the past 27 months.

I am no longer a part of the growning Rock Around The World operation. I have in the past 27 months met some amazingly dedicated individuals who have helped to make this Music Business palatable for me. I love them all.

Meryl Wheeler, Cindy Greer and my dear Laura Cohen at Virgin, Thank You.

Thank you, Bill Bentley, Jim Baltutis and the lovely Kim Blum at Reprise. Doreen Rossato for the Chris Isaak.

My dear dear friends, Stephanie Kavoulakos & Glenn Fukishima...I love you. Laura Gold, Angelica Cob.

Wendy at Elektra. No more faxes from RATW for-ever.

The remarkable women at Epic: Heather Davis, Melissa Dragich and Stephanie Cabral.

My sweet Leo, Sharrin Summers at Hollywood Records. You are my [heroine].

The Great Independent Ken Phillips at KPG Group.

Jolyn Matsumuro at Mercury Records West. Thanks for believing at the very beginning.

Lizbeth Cassaday at Discovery. Ciao, Baby.

Liz Rosenberg at Warner Brothers, New York City.
Deb Bernardini at Reprise, New York City.

Roy Hamm at Geffen.

Eric Stein and the fabulous Jennifer A. Ballantyne at Music Corporation of America.

Judi Kerr at Capitol Records.

Sandro at Island Records, New York City.

Becky Newton at Polygram Soundtracks. I owe you big time.

Lucy Sabini, Todd Schenkenberger, Gina Orr and the Great Media Relations department at RCA, New York City.

Leah Horwitz, wherever you are.

Mitch Schneider Organization.

Everyone at Revolution.

Ida Langsam at ISLPR.

Ian at Steve Martin's Nasty Little Man

Kathy Halgas.

Shore Fire Media...especially Marilyn Leverty and Lorie Jakobsen.

Phil at The WORK Group.

Johnny Gold at Columbia Records.

The Albright Group.

Marshall Lamp at GRP and the old Blue Thumb days.

Lisa Gladfelter at Ardent, Memphis, Tennessee.

Fran Curtis and her fabulous assistant Rebecca at Rogers & Cowan, New York City.

I want to thank every Artist who ever let me talk to them. Thank you for your time. Keith Morris, Peter Frampton, Yngwie Malmsteen, Fredi Towles, Gravity Kills,
The Cunninghams, Camus, and Edwin McCain.

I'm starting to fade here, I hope I'm not forgetting anyone.

Thank you to all the Artists who dedicated themselves to their craft, inspiring a fool like me to write with my fingers the things I've felt in my heart.

Please down load what I've written and save it for posterity. I don't even have copies of some of this stuff. If the site goes, it's gone forever, baby. Hopefully I'll get around to affording my own computer and printer before RATW signs off for good. That way, I'll have something to read to my grandchildren, dig?

I am going to go to The Music Business. Hopefully, I will find some open doors. It's rude to kick doors in.

Thank you for reading. My dictionary was given to me by Peter K. Haile in 1977, I refer to it often. Mr. Haile graduated form Jesus College, Oxford University and saw some spark of a writer in me in 9th grade English class during our run through Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice. I am a graduate of The Stony Brook School, 1980. We don't mess around with The English Language there. Every graduate is completely and utterly literate. My dictionary is a Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, A Merriam-Webster. There's more about me, but I just ran out of sources and uses of funds to linger long enough to tell you while at RATW.

Please read to your children. I regret that some children may have logged on to the site and read language intended for adults in the Music Business, since my primary target ws the decision makers of this business. It is not my intention to corrupt little minds. My dialogue is and adult form of language used in the War Machine. You'll have to pull my jacket to find out what I mean.

So fuck it, I'm leaving. Look for me to surface somehwere in the grand, grand, Music Business.

Until then I can be reached at my own company, EARS/CATAPULT 310-366-9443.

Thank you Danny Lipman for the opportunity, but the beanstalk is grown and I'm going up to the Castle to get my Golden Goose.

The ILP's are all that I have left of my commitments to the business on behalf of RATW.

BEST REGARDS,

BABAHIMA,

LOVE & RESPECT

Emery Godofredo Columna
La Crescenta, CA

Maybe I'll see you in cyberspace...


Internet Listening Pleasure: Message To Love, The Isle Of Wight Festival Video/SMV; Meridith Brooks blurring the edges/Capitol, The Fabulous Thunderbirds highwater/High Street, Jen Trynin Gun Shy Trigger Happy/Warners, The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997/Reprise, Mare Winningham Lonesomers, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble at Carnegie Hall/Epic, Talk Show/Atlantic, Jars Of Clay much afraid/Silvertone'Essential, Genesis...calling all sations/Atlantic, Seven Mary Three Rock Crown/Atlantic, The Full Monty Soundtrack/RCA Victor'Fox Searchlight, Merry Clayton Miracles, Curtis Amy Sextet Peace For Love,Dusty Springfield Boxed Set/Mercury, Bean, The Album/Mercury,A Home For The Holidays/Hammer &Lace'Mercury,God Street Wine/Mercury, KISS Carnival Of Souls/Mercury, Copland Milan Entertainment, Matchbox 20 Yourself Or Someone Like You/Atlantic, Kelly Joe Phelps Roll Away The Stone/Rykodisc, G. I. Jane Original Soundtrack/Hollywood, Soak/Interscope, Caroline's Spine/Hollywood, Average White Band/Foundation,Julia Fordham/Virgin, Cellophane/Virgin, Junior Cottonmouth Bespoke/Atlantic.

The Crescent SHAMAN Speed Of Sound. NA
Long Kiss Goodbye

I wanted to say goodbye to all the Music lovers out there who may have found my writings amusing over the course of the past 27 months.

I am no longer a part of the growning Rock Around The World operation. I have in the past 27 months met some amazingly dedicated individuals who have helped to make this Music Business palatable for me. I love them all.

Meryl Wheeler, Cindy Greer and my dear Laura Cohen at Virgin, Thank You.

Thank you, Bill Bentley, Jim Baltutis and the lovely Kim Blum at Reprise. Doreen Rossato for the Chris Isaak.

My dear dear friends, Stephanie Kavoulakos & Glenn Fukishima...I love you. Laura Gold, Angelica Cob.

Wendy at Elektra. No more faxes from RATW for-ever.

The remarkable women at Epic: Heather Davis, Melissa Dragich and Stephanie Cabral.

My sweet Leo, Sharrin Summers at Hollywood Records. You are my [heroine].

The Great Independent Ken Phillips at KPG Group.

Jolyn Matsumuro at Mercury Records West. Thanks for believing at the very beginning.

Lizbeth Cassaday at Discovery. Ciao, Baby.

Liz Rosenberg at Warner Brothers, New York City.
Deb Bernardini at Reprise, New York City.

Roy Hamm at Geffen.

Eric Stein and the fabulous Jennifer A. Ballantyne at Music Corporation of America.

Judi Kerr at Capitol Records.

Sandro at Island Records, New York City.

Becky Newton at Polygram Soundtracks. I owe you big time.

Lucy Sabini, Todd Schenkenberger, Gina Orr and the Great Media Relations department at RCA, New York City.

Leah Horwitz, wherever you are.

Mitch Schneider Organization.

Everyone at Revolution.

Ida Langsam at ISLPR.

Ian at Steve Martin's Nasty Little Man

Kathy Halgas.

Shore Fire Media...especially Marilyn Leverty and Lorie Jakobsen.

Phil at The WORK Group.

Johnny Gold at Columbia Records.

The Albright Group.

Marshall Lamp at GRP and the old Blue Thumb days.

Lisa Gladfelter at Ardent, Memphis, Tennessee.

Fran Curtis and her fabulous assistant Rebecca at Rogers & Cowan, New York City.

I want to thank every Artist who ever let me talk to them. Thank you for your time. Keith Morris, Peter Frampton, Yngwie Malmsteen, Fredi Towles, Gravity Kills,
The Cunninghams, Camus, and Edwin McCain.

I'm starting to fade here, I hope I'm not forgetting anyone.

Thank you to all the Artists who dedicated themselves to their craft, inspiring a fool like me to write with my fingers the things I've felt in my heart.

Please down load what I've written and save it for posterity. I don't even have copies of some of this stuff. If the site goes, it's gone forever, baby. Hopefully I'll get around to affording my own computer and printer before RATW signs off for good. That way, I'll have something to read to my grandchildren, dig?

I am going to go to The Music Business. Hopefully, I will find some open doors. It's rude to kick doors in.

Thank you for reading. My dictionary was given to me by Peter K. Haile in 1977, I refer to it often. Mr. Haile graduated form Jesus College, Oxford University and saw some spark of a writer in me in 9th grade English class during our run through Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice. I am a graduate of The Stony Brook School, 1980. We don't mess around with The English Language there. Every graduate is completely and utterly literate. My dictionary is a Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, A Merriam-Webster. There's more about me, but I just ran out of sources and uses of funds to linger long enough to tell you while at RATW.

Please read to your children. I regret that some children may have logged on to the site and read language intended for adults in the Music Business, since my primary target ws the decision makers of this business. It is not my intention to corrupt little minds. My dialogue is and adult form of language used in the War Machine. You'll have to pull my jacket to find out what I mean.

So fuck it, I'm leaving. Look for me to surface somehwere in the grand, grand, Music Business.

Until then I can be reached at my own company, EARS/CATAPULT 310-366-9443.

Thank you Danny Lipman for the opportunity, but the beanstalk is grown and I'm going up to the Castle to get my Golden Goose.

The ILP's are all that I have left of my commitments to the business on behalf of RATW.

BEST REGARDS,

BABAHIMA,

LOVE & RESPECT

Emery Godofredo Columna
La Crescenta, CA

Maybe I'll see you in cyberspace...


Internet Listening Pleasure: Message To Love, The Isle Of Wight Festival Video/SMV; Meridith Brooks blurring the edges/Capitol, The Fabulous Thunderbirds highwater/High Street, Jen Trynin Gun Shy Trigger Happy/Warners, The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997/Reprise, Mare Winningham Lonesomers, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble at Carnegie Hall/Epic, Talk Show/Atlantic, Jars Of Clay much afraid/Silvertone'Essential, Genesis...calling all sations/Atlantic, Seven Mary Three Rock Crown/Atlantic, The Full Monty Soundtrack/RCA Victor'Fox Searchlight, Merry Clayton Miracles, Curtis Amy Sextet Peace For Love,Dusty Springfield Boxed Set/Mercury, Bean, The Album/Mercury,A Home For The Holidays/Hammer &Lace'Mercury,God Street Wine/Mercury, KISS Carnival Of Souls/Mercury, Copland Milan Entertainment, Matchbox 20 Yourself Or Someone Like You/Atlantic, Kelly Joe Phelps Roll Away The Stone/Rykodisc, G. I. Jane Original Soundtrack/Hollywood, Soak/Interscope, Caroline's Spine/Hollywood, Average White Band/Foundation,Julia Fordham/Virgin, Cellophane/Virgin, Junior Cottonmouth Bespoke/Atlantic.

The Crescent SHAMAN Speed Of Sound. NA
Long Kiss Goodbye

I wanted to say goodbye to all the Music lovers out there who may have found my writings amusing over the course of the past 27 months.

I am no longer a part of the growning Rock Around The World operation. I have in the past 27 months met some amazingly dedicated individuals who have helped to make this Music Business palatable for me. I love them all.

Meryl Wheeler, Cindy Greer and my dear Laura Cohen at Virgin, Thank You.

Thank you, Bill Bentley, Jim Baltutis and the lovely Kim Blum at Reprise. Doreen Rossato for the Chris Isaak.

My dear dear friends, Stephanie Kavoulakos & Glenn Fukishima...I love you. Laura Gold, Angelica Cob.

Wendy at Elektra. No more faxes from RATW for-ever.

The remarkable women at Epic: Heather Davis, Melissa Dragich and Stephanie Cabral.

My sweet Leo, Sharrin Summers at Hollywood Records. You are my [heroine].

The Great Independent Ken Phillips at KPG Group.

Jolyn Matsumuro at Mercury Records West. Thanks for believing at the very beginning.

Lizbeth Cassaday at Discovery. Ciao, Baby.

Liz Rosenberg at Warner Brothers, New York City.
Deb Bernardini at Reprise, New York City.

Roy Hamm at Geffen.

Eric Stein and the fabulous Jennifer A. Ballantyne at Music Corporation of America.

Judi Kerr at Capitol Records.

Sandro at Island Records, New York City.

Becky Newton at Polygram Soundtracks. I owe you big time.

Lucy Sabini, Todd Schenkenberger, Gina Orr and the Great Media Relations department at RCA, New York City.

Leah Horwitz, wherever you are.

Mitch Schneider Organization.

Everyone at Revolution.

Ida Langsam at ISLPR.

Ian at Steve Martin's Nasty Little Man

Kathy Halgas.

Shore Fire Media...especially Marilyn Leverty and Lorie Jakobsen.

Phil at The WORK Group.

Johnny Gold at Columbia Records.

The Albright Group.

Marshall Lamp at GRP and the old Blue Thumb days.

Lisa Gladfelter at Ardent, Memphis, Tennessee.

Fran Curtis and her fabulous assistant Rebecca at Rogers & Cowan, New York City.

I want to thank every Artist who ever let me talk to them. Thank you for your time. Keith Morris, Peter Frampton, Yngwie Malmsteen, Fredi Towles, Gravity Kills,
The Cunninghams, Camus, and Edwin McCain.

I'm starting to fade here, I hope I'm not forgetting anyone.

Thank you to all the Artists who dedicated themselves to their craft, inspiring a fool like me to write with my fingers the things I've felt in my heart.

Please down load what I've written and save it for posterity. I don't even have copies of some of this stuff. If the site goes, it's gone forever, baby. Hopefully I'll get around to affording my own computer and printer before RATW signs off for good. That way, I'll have something to read to my grandchildren, dig?

I am going to go to The Music Business. Hopefully, I will find some open doors. It's rude to kick doors in.

Thank you for reading. My dictionary was given to me by Peter K. Haile in 1977, I refer to it often. Mr. Haile graduated form Jesus College, Oxford University and saw some spark of a writer in me in 9th grade English class during our run through Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice. I am a graduate of The Stony Brook School, 1980. We don't mess around with The English Language there. Every graduate is completely and utterly literate. My dictionary is a Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, A Merriam-Webster. There's more about me, but I just ran out of sources and uses of funds to linger long enough to tell you while at RATW.

Please read to your children. I regret that some children may have logged on to the site and read language intended for adults in the Music Business, since my primary target ws the decision makers of this business. It is not my intention to corrupt little minds. My dialogue is and adult form of language used in the War Machine. You'll have to pull my jacket to find out what I mean.

So fuck it, I'm leaving. Look for me to surface somehwere in the grand, grand, Music Business.

Until then I can be reached at my own company, EARS/CATAPULT 310-366-9443.

Thank you Danny Lipman for the opportunity, but the beanstalk is grown and I'm going up to the Castle to get my Golden Goose.

The ILP's are all that I have left of my commitments to the business on behalf of RATW.

BEST REGARDS,

BABAHIMA,

LOVE & RESPECT

Emery Godofredo Columna
La Crescenta, CA

Maybe I'll see you in cyberspace...


Internet Listening Pleasure: Message To Love, The Isle Of Wight Festival Video/SMV; Meridith Brooks blurring the edges/Capitol, The Fabulous Thunderbirds highwater/High Street, Jen Trynin Gun Shy Trigger Happy/Warners, The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997/Reprise, Mare Winningham Lonesomers, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble at Carnegie Hall/Epic, Talk Show/Atlantic, Jars Of Clay much afraid/Silvertone'Essential, Genesis...calling all sations/Atlantic, Seven Mary Three Rock Crown/Atlantic, The Full Monty Soundtrack/RCA Victor'Fox Searchlight, Merry Clayton Miracles, Curtis Amy Sextet Peace For Love,Dusty Springfield Boxed Set/Mercury, Bean, The Album/Mercury,A Home For The Holidays/Hammer &Lace'Mercury,God Street Wine/Mercury, KISS Carnival Of Souls/Mercury, Copland Milan Entertainment, Matchbox 20 Yourself Or Someone Like You/Atlantic, Kelly Joe Phelps Roll Away The Stone/Rykodisc, G. I. Jane Original Soundtrack/Hollywood, Soak/Interscope, Caroline's Spine/Hollywood, Average White Band/Foundation,Julia Fordham/Virgin, Cellophane/Virgin, Junior Cottonmouth Bespoke/Atlantic.

The Crescent SHAMAN Speed Of Sound. NA
Long Kiss Goodbye

I wanted to say goodbye to all the Music lovers out there who may have found my writings amusing over the course of the past 27 months.

I am no longer a part of the growning Rock Around The World operation. I have in the past 27 months met some amazingly dedicated individuals who have helped to make this Music Business palatable for me. I love them all.

Meryl Wheeler, Cindy Greer and my dear Laura Cohen at Virgin, Thank You.

Thank you, Bill Bentley, Jim Baltutis and the lovely Kim Blum at Reprise. Doreen Rossato for the Chris Isaak.

My dear dear friends, Stephanie Kavoulakos & Glenn Fukishima...I love you. Laura Gold, Angelica Cob.

Wendy at Elektra. No more faxes from RATW for-ever.

The remarkable women at Epic: Heather Davis, Melissa Dragich and Stephanie Cabral.

My sweet Leo, Sharrin Summers at Hollywood Records. You are my [heroine].

The Great Independent Ken Phillips at KPG Group.

Jolyn Matsumuro at Mercury Records West. Thanks for believing at the very beginning.

Lizbeth Cassaday at Discovery. Ciao, Baby.

Liz Rosenberg at Warner Brothers, New York City.
Deb Bernardini at Reprise, New York City.

Roy Hamm at Geffen.

Eric Stein and the fabulous Jennifer A. Ballantyne at Music Corporation of America.

Judi Kerr at Capitol Records.

Sandro at Island Records, New York City.

Becky Newton at Polygram Soundtracks. I owe you big time.

Lucy Sabini, Todd Schenkenberger, Gina Orr and the Great Media Relations department at RCA, New York City.

Leah Horwitz, wherever you are.

Mitch Schneider Organization.

Everyone at Revolution.

Ida Langsam at ISLPR.

Ian at Steve Martin's Nasty Little Man

Kathy Halgas.

Shore Fire Media...especially Marilyn Leverty and Lorie Jakobsen.

Phil at The WORK Group.

Johnny Gold at Columbia Records.

The Albright Group.

Marshall Lamp at GRP and the old Blue Thumb days.

Lisa Gladfelter at Ardent, Memphis, Tennessee.

Fran Curtis and her fabulous assistant Rebecca at Rogers & Cowan, New York City.

I want to thank every Artist who ever let me talk to them. Thank you for your time. Keith Morris, Peter Frampton, Yngwie Malmsteen, Fredi Towles, Gravity Kills,
The Cunninghams, Camus, and Edwin McCain.

I'm starting to fade here, I hope I'm not forgetting anyone.

Thank you to all the Artists who dedicated themselves to their craft, inspiring a fool like me to write with my fingers the things I've felt in my heart.

Please down load what I've written and save it for posterity. I don't even have copies of some of this stuff. If the site goes, it's gone forever, baby. Hopefully I'll get around to affording my own computer and printer before RATW signs off for good. That way, I'll have something to read to my grandchildren, dig?

I am going to go to The Music Business. Hopefully, I will find some open doors. It's rude to kick doors in.

Thank you for reading. My dictionary was given to me by Peter K. Haile in 1977, I refer to it often. Mr. Haile graduated form Jesus College, Oxford University and saw some spark of a writer in me in 9th grade English class during our run through Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice. I am a graduate of The Stony Brook School, 1980. We don't mess around with The English Language there. Every graduate is completely and utterly literate. My dictionary is a Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, A Merriam-Webster. There's more about me, but I just ran out of sources and uses of funds to linger long enough to tell you while at RATW.

Please read to your children. I regret that some children may have logged on to the site and read language intended for adults in the Music Business, since my primary target ws the decision makers of this business. It is not my intention to corrupt little minds. My dialogue is and adult form of language used in the War Machine. You'll have to pull my jacket to find out what I mean.

So fuck it, I'm leaving. Look for me to surface somehwere in the grand, grand, Music Business.

Until then I can be reached at my own company, EARS/CATAPULT 310-366-9443.

Thank you Danny Lipman for the opportunity, but the beanstalk is grown and I'm going up to the Castle to get my Golden Goose.

The ILP's are all that I have left of my commitments to the business on behalf of RATW.

BEST REGARDS,

BABAHIMA,

LOVE & RESPECT

Emery Godofredo Columna
La Crescenta, CA

Maybe I'll see you in cyberspace...


Internet Listening Pleasure: Message To Love, The Isle Of Wight Festival Video/SMV; Meridith Brooks blurring the edges/Capitol, The Fabulous Thunderbirds highwater/High Street, Jen Trynin Gun Shy Trigger Happy/Warners, The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997/Reprise, Mare Winningham Lonesomers, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble at Carnegie Hall/Epic, Talk Show/Atlantic, Jars Of Clay much afraid/Silvertone'Essential, Genesis...calling all sations/Atlantic, Seven Mary Three Rock Crown/Atlantic, The Full Monty Soundtrack/RCA Victor'Fox Searchlight, Merry Clayton Miracles, Curtis Amy Sextet Peace For Love,Dusty Springfield Boxed Set/Mercury, Bean, The Album/Mercury,A Home For The Holidays/Hammer &Lace'Mercury,God Street Wine/Mercury, KISS Carnival Of Souls/Mercury, Copland Milan Entertainment, Matchbox 20 Yourself Or Someone Like You/Atlantic, Kelly Joe Phelps Roll Away The Stone/Rykodisc, G. I. Jane Original Soundtrack/Hollywood, Soak/Interscope, Caroline's Spine/Hollywood, Average White Band/Foundation,Julia Fordham/Virgin, Cellophane/Virgin, Junior Cottonmouth Bespoke/Atlantic.

The Crescent SHAMAN Speed Of Sound. NA
Long Kiss Goodbye

I wanted to say goodbye to all the Music lovers out there who may have found my writings amusing over the course of the past 27 months.

I am no longer a part of the growning Rock Around The World operation. I have in the past 27 months met some amazingly dedicated individuals who have helped to make this Music Business palatable for me. I love them all.

Meryl Wheeler, Cindy Greer and my dear Laura Cohen at Virgin, Thank You.

Thank you, Bill Bentley, Jim Baltutis and the lovely Kim Blum at Reprise. Doreen Rossato for the Chris Isaak.

My dear dear friends, Stephanie Kavoulakos & Glenn Fukishima...I love you. Laura Gold, Angelica Cob.

Wendy at Elektra. No more faxes from RATW for-ever.

The remarkable women at Epic: Heather Davis, Melissa Dragich and Stephanie Cabral.

My sweet Leo, Sharrin Summers at Hollywood Records. You are my [heroine].

The Great Independent Ken Phillips at KPG Group.

Jolyn Matsumuro at Mercury Records West. Thanks for believing at the very beginning.

Lizbeth Cassaday at Discovery. Ciao, Baby.

Liz Rosenberg at Warner Brothers, New York City.
Deb Bernardini at Reprise, New York City.

Roy Hamm at Geffen.

Eric Stein and the fabulous Jennifer A. Ballantyne at Music Corporation of America.

Judi Kerr at Capitol Records.

Sandro at Island Records, New York City.

Becky Newton at Polygram Soundtracks. I owe you big time.

Lucy Sabini, Todd Schenkenberger, Gina Orr and the Great Media Relations department at RCA, New York City.

Leah Horwitz, wherever you are.

Mitch Schneider Organization.

Everyone at Revolution.

Ida Langsam at ISLPR.

Ian at Steve Martin's Nasty Little Man

Kathy Halgas.

Shore Fire Media...especially Marilyn Leverty and Lorie Jakobsen.

Phil at The WORK Group.

Johnny Gold at Columbia Records.

The Albright Group.

Marshall Lamp at GRP and the old Blue Thumb days.

Lisa Gladfelter at Ardent, Memphis, Tennessee.

Fran Curtis and her fabulous assistant Rebecca at Rogers & Cowan, New York City.

I want to thank every Artist who ever let me talk to them. Thank you for your time. Keith Morris, Peter Frampton, Yngwie Malmsteen, Fredi Towles, Gravity Kills,
The Cunninghams, Camus, and Edwin McCain.

I'm starting to fade here, I hope I'm not forgetting anyone.

Thank you to all the Artists who dedicated themselves to their craft, inspiring a fool like me to write with my fingers the things I've felt in my heart.

Please down load what I've written and save it for posterity. I don't even have copies of some of this stuff. If the site goes, it's gone forever, baby. Hopefully I'll get around to affording my own computer and printer before RATW signs off for good. That way, I'll have something to read to my grandchildren, dig?

I am going to go to The Music Business. Hopefully, I will find some open doors. It's rude to kick doors in.

Thank you for reading. My dictionary was given to me by Peter K. Haile in 1977, I refer to it often. Mr. Haile graduated form Jesus College, Oxford University and saw some spark of a writer in me in 9th grade English class during our run through Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice. I am a graduate of The Stony Brook School, 1980. We don't mess around with The English Language there. Every graduate is completely and utterly literate. My dictionary is a Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, A Merriam-Webster. There's more about me, but I just ran out of sources and uses of funds to linger long enough to tell you while at RATW.

Please read to your children. I regret that some children may have logged on to the site and read language intended for adults in the Music Business, since my primary target ws the decision makers of this business. It is not my intention to corrupt little minds. My dialogue is and adult form of language used in the War Machine. You'll have to pull my jacket to find out what I mean.

So fuck it, I'm leaving. Look for me to surface somehwere in the grand, grand, Music Business.

Until then I can be reached at my own company, EARS/CATAPULT 310-366-9443.

Thank you Danny Lipman for the opportunity, but the beanstalk is grown and I'm going up to the Castle to get my Golden Goose.

The ILP's are all that I have left of my commitments to the business on behalf of RATW.

BEST REGARDS,

BABAHIMA,

LOVE & RESPECT

Emery Godofredo Columna
La Crescenta, CA

Maybe I'll see you in cyberspace...


Internet Listening Pleasure: Message To Love, The Isle Of Wight Festival Video/SMV; Meridith Brooks blurring the edges/Capitol, The Fabulous Thunderbirds highwater/High Street, Jen Trynin Gun Shy Trigger Happy/Warners, The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997/Reprise, Mare Winningham Lonesomers, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble at Carnegie Hall/Epic, Talk Show/Atlantic, Jars Of Clay much afraid/Silvertone'Essential, Genesis...calling all sations/Atlantic, Seven Mary Three Rock Crown/Atlantic, The Full Monty Soundtrack/RCA Victor'Fox Searchlight, Merry Clayton Miracles, Curtis Amy Sextet Peace For Love,Dusty Springfield Boxed Set/Mercury, Bean, The Album/Mercury,A Home For The Holidays/Hammer &Lace'Mercury,God Street Wine/Mercury, KISS Carnival Of Souls/Mercury, Copland Milan Entertainment, Matchbox 20 Yourself Or Someone Like You/Atlantic, Kelly Joe Phelps Roll Away The Stone/Rykodisc, G. I. Jane Original Soundtrack/Hollywood, Soak/Interscope, Caroline's Spine/Hollywood, Average White Band/Foundation,Julia Fordham/Virgin, Cellophane/Virgin, Junior Cottonmouth Bespoke/Atlantic.

[an error occurred while processing this directive]