Michael Olivas, Law of Rock and Roll Professor

Yesterday, I entered the intrepid world of Twitter, in part because my media staff at UHLC have been urging me to do so, and in part because it is the only way to reach many people who no longer use email as their primary method of social media connections... Download PDF File

This is an unusual Posse Posting, as it announces some upcoming movies about rock and roll subjects, and I fold into it my script for an upcoming Law of Rock and Roll Class (No. 31), on the same subject... Download PDF File

In a July, 2015 Posse posting about the summer movies “Love and Mercy” and “Amy,” I noted (in “Brian, Amy, and Leon”)... Download PDF File

Last night, Tina and I attended a Master Class by Damien Rice, entitled “how to perform in a concert,” at the Revention Center (f/k/a Aerial Theater, Verizon Wireless Theater, Bayou Music Center), with our great friends and concert buddies Rueben Casarez and Nicole Casarez, after feasting on lobster sushi at Blue Fin... Download PDF File

One of the great things—among many—about a very good concert is that it both reassures and surprises... Download PDF File

As I wrote you recently, I have decided that I will not attend any more Dylan concerts... Download PDF File

As I wrote this morning: I have commencement and grading deadlines... Download PDF File

I have seen Dylan now for 6 shows, ranging from among the best concerts ever... Download PDF File

Last night, HBO carried the premiere 'Montage of Heck,' featuring Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain... Download PDF File

I have a brother who lives in Las Vegas, NV, and yesterday before I wrote to all of you, he sent me a note about BB King, saying that he had heard from a friend with insider knowledge there that BB King was in hospice care... Download PDF File

On Wednesday, Tina and I saw The Who in the Toyota Center, with UHLC grads Justen Barks and his wife, Jennifer Caplan—he co-teaches Entertainment Law for us as an adjunct, and she is one of my former Immigration Law students... Download PDF File

In an astonishing stretch of four years, between 1965 and 1968, The Beatles published Beatles VI (1965), Help! (1965), Rubber Soul (1965), Yesterday and Today (1966), Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), Magical Mystery Tour (1968), and The Beatles (a/k/a The White Album) (1968)... Download PDF File

Just as I mentioned Brian Wilson and his somewhat tattered voice in this morning’s posting, here comes a glorious group cover of one of his most beautiful songs, the sublime God Only Knows, with the overlapping chorus at the end that brings tears to your eyes, it is so beautiful and poetic... Download PDF File

Ian McLagan, who passed yesterday, deserves mention, plus there is nothing like grading deadlines to make me want to read the obituaries... Download PDF File

Vinyl records are a very small slice of the various ways we buy and sell music today, and Amazon.com has a Vinyl Department that sells them, which is why the Urban Outfitters stores selling them is probably a doomed enterprise over the long haul... Download PDF File

The NY Times obituary notes, without elaboration, “In the early 1960s, he toured with the singer Bobby Vee’s band.”... Download PDF File

Has there ever been a better bass player than Jack Bruce when he was with Cream and for a short time with Blind Faith?... Download PDF File

It is sad to see groups spool out as they end their productive time as performers. Some vintage entertainers, of course, remain fresh and still produce new material, such as Neil Young, whose new works are still towering... Download PDF File

Has there ever been a better bass player than Jack Bruce when he was with Cream and for a short time with Blind Faith? Maybe John Entwistle of the Who or Bootsy... Download PDF File

In the October 24 issue of Rolling Stone, there is bittersweet news of Van Morrison’s classic Moondance album, among his greatest 3 or 4 albums... Download PDF File

Van Dyke Parks is one of the most enigmatic composer/arrangers in all of pop music, ranking with Phil Spector and Syd Barrett (late of Pink Floyd), and a number of... Download PDF File

Your Posse leader attended the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, where (not in order) the following were inducted... Download PDF File

Annie Clark, d/b/a St. Vincent, is astonishing, as I recently reported in my Posse posting on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony... Download PDF File