MY BACK PAGES
My English bulldog Ollie, 6, and boxer Kate, 5, looking to see if they're mentioned in "Corn Flakes."
When I left the Los Angeles Times at the end of 2005, I realized that I had spent most of the previous 35 years listening almost exclusively to new music and it made me want to go back and revisit some of my favorite music from the past. The result is Backtracking, a column that I now write for the Los Angeles Times that spotlights CD reissues.
I did a series of interviews in 2006 with Danny Passman for Artists House Music. Danny was a producer and key interviewer for the site. He is now an entertainment lawyer at Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, proudly working with his father, Donald S. Passman, a respected music industry attorney and author of "All You Need to Know About the Music Business," which Rolling Stone has called "required reading for anyone planning or enduring a career in the biz."