Musicians, artists and music business professionals discuss their history, trials and tribulations in an often humorous manner with host Jake Szufnarowski head of NYC based concert firm Rocks Off.
This week I dive deep into my first ever trip to New York City, which ended with me falling off a 6 story roof on the Upper East Side and landing me in the hospital (and a pile of debris) for 10 days…
This week I ramble about my experience at the Yellow Pine Harmonica Festival, and all that entailed, being away from home in McCalm for my longest stretch since I moved here, and how to reconcile "be…
This week I ramble about another week of adventures in Yellow Pine, and how I walked into what I thought was going to be an enormous ass kicking by a bunch of roughneck ruffians trying to steal my mo…
This week I ramble about my bum knee, hospitals, meditation, my own personal aversion anti-depressants, accessing your whole brain, and just slowing the whole thing down. this one went long, but for …
This week I ramble how life isn't supposed to be a straight line. Curveballs, hills, peaks, valleys Those are the things that make life worth living. After being a successful concert promoter for 23 …
This week I ramble about the mostly positive effects of a mental health "coming out", a phone free weekend adventure ride and camping trip in the Back Country of Idaho, and the timeless lessons learn…
It's been a weird week. Last week's episode was a huge release and led to a lot of catharsis but also the reopening of old wounds. I received a lot of outpouring of support yet it's all been tough to…
This week's episode was supposed to be interviewing my friend Toby Morse. Instead he flipped the script and interviewed me. This one is 3 hours long. And it's deep, raw, intense, emotional and we bot…
This week I ramble about the little existential crises I go through between staying put and finding adventure. And how the two don't have to be mutually exclusive. Plus a tale about a ghost town at t…
This week I ramble about my first trip to socialize with friends since the Pandemic started. I flew to LA, saw a bunch of buds, rode in a van with the band H2O to their show in Phoenix and then renew…
This week I ramble about my trip to the world's most dangerous motorcycle race - The Isle of Man TT. the race averages over a death a year for the competitors, and untold more deaths of the numerous …
As much as I enjoy rambling by myself for an hour so every Tuesday, today marks the first of what will be a semi-regular series of bonus episodes entitled "Fridays With Friends" where I chew the fat …
This week I take the episode OUTSIDE and record in the woods outside of my luxurious mountain estate up here in McCalm, Idaho. I get into the panic about going back to real life, whether or not weari…
This week I pull out some of my more fun music biz anecdotes. The long and convoluted journey of how I finally got David Allan Coe to play in NYC - on a boat no less! - after more than 30 years witho…
This week I replace my usual ramblings and musings with an episode focused on how the music business *really* works. I dig into the concert end of the biz myself from arenas right on down to everyone…
Its been 5 years since PRINCE has left us, so this week I pick my top 3 Live Prince Experiences, out of the 43 times Ive seen him. And I ramble a little about my trip to Vegas and my reunion with my …
18 months ago, to the day, the Las Vegas Police Department broke down the door of my room at the Cosmopolitan to save me from my suicidal self. Sort of. As weird as that seems, this isn't a depressin…
This week I ramble about health and the pursuit of happiness. Or lack thereof. What love means, and how hard it is to let go of that love even when you know you should. This one gets pretty intimate …