Let's see. I wrote the first Rolling Stone cover story on Guns N' Roses, as well as a Bon Jovi cover which pissed off Jon Bon Jovi (for weeks after it came out, there was a designated spot in Bon Jovi concerts when he called me a "son of a bitch"). Also, after my unimpressed review of Elvis Costello's Blood and Chocolate, he regularly dedicated a cover of Mose Allison's "Your Mind Is On Vacation (But Your Mouth Is Working Overtime)" to me during shows. Oh, and after I'd written unkind things about a dismal Jefferson Airplane reunion tour, Grace Slick referred to my work as "nasty." Along the way, I've written for: the Village Voice, the New York Times, the New York Post, New York Woman, New York magazine, New York Newsday, Manhattan, Inc., GQ, Musician, Details, Vogue, the Boston Phoenix, Boston Rock (who paid me $23 for a cover story), Entertainment Weekly, Output, New Musical Express, Guitar Trader, Buzz, Interview, US magazine,! !, 7 Days, Taxi, the Journal of Country Music, the London Sunday Times Magazine, ASCAP In Action, and, whew, Percussion Quarterly. I'm old enough to have seen R.E.M. in a club with only 30 people, and young enough to be bored by the Beatles.