Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Word Of Mouth

First and foremost comes a good product.
Requiring no admission fee, no college degree, no qualifications whatsoever, the music business is peopled by hucksters, who employ myriad scams to get you to pay attention to their wares.
But it doesn’t work.
Used to.  Back when there was limited distribution, when bribing a deejay to play your song got [...]

More Sam Adams

Have you been following the story of the runaway Prius?
Turns out the guy declared bankruptcy and his lease was about to expire and…
Bottom line, science doesn’t lie, and his Prius just didn’t have the brake wear it should have if the story was true.  Take it from the "Wall Street Journal":

Questions Arise in Prius Case

Point [...]

Money, Power & Fame

I read a story on the airplane…
Not only am I not sure what time it is, I wouldn’t even bet on what DAY it is!
I got off the airplane and my BlackBerry said 3:22 AM.  How could that be?  My watch said an hour earlier.  Took me about twenty minutes to factor in Daylight Savings [...]

Sam Adams

Parking our asses on a couch in the lobby of the Royal York Hotel, we watched the endless parade go by.  I thought everybody was here for CMW, especially the young girls parading around in their pajamas.  Turned out they were Christian moms, aged thirty, in town for a conference with someone named Beth Moore [...]