Archive for 2007/11


More Wrapped

So I’m standing in the shower and I notice this big black and blue mark on my left leg. Last week was my week to catch up, to address all the health issues I’d let slide. I finally got my shoulder checked out, the one I injured in a freak accident almost two years ago. […]

Floorspace Shrinkage

Richard Greenfield is at it again. In yesterday’s Pali Research report he said: We had been assuming that US industry retail floor space devoted to CDs would contract over 20% in 2008, however, based on recent conversations with several music industry executives, we increasingly believe the reductions could be north of 30% with highly profitable […]

Mailbag

Bob, Phil Stevens here , in LA but jet lagged as fuck from flying in from the most isolated city in the world , good old Perth, WA Australia. Spent the night discovering the Rainbow Bar on Sunset, never seen so many long haired ex rockers..spent the afternoon meeting a great gentleman Gary Borman, manager […]

Getting Paid

If I get one more e-mail from an artist asking how to get paid I’m gonna explode! Didn’t anybody tell these people making music for a living was a privilege, not a right? I hate to rain on your parade here, but unless you move to a foreign country where the government pays you to […]