Under the Influencers

I Grew Up on Bar Anthems. Then I Met the Man Who Wrote One.

It was many years back, and I was hunkered down at a bar in Montecito, California, a fancy little town that smells like eucalyptus and Botox. I was nursing a gin and tonic, trying to look mysterious and not-at-all lonely, when some dude tried to squeeze between me and the guy next to me to flag down the bartender.

Now, look, I don’t ask for much in life.…