Sal’s Boutique

I’m in the middle of three music books right now: The Rock Snob’s Dictionary and Lost In The Grooves are great books to drop in on when you have a few minutes waiting in the grocery line. The Mansion on the Hill by Fred Goodman requires a bit more concentration. It’s Goodman’s perspective on how rock and roll went from being a product of the underground to simply being a product, largely through work and personalities of three people: Albert Grossman, Jon Landau and David Geffen.

David Geffen gets quite a bit of ink, from his beginning at William Morris to his founding of Elektra/Asylum and Geffen Records.
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