So yesterday I hosted a panel on 360 deals for the Beverly Hills Bar Association. I was questioning Rand Hoffman, head lawyer for Interscope, and Fred Goldring, attorney extraordinaire, and I wondered if we were even in the same business. The scam is you get continuing education credit for coming to these affairs. Which is […]

Once upon a time, Nick Lowe was Mutt Lange. The world’s most famous, most revered, record producer. But their styles were completely different. Mutt is a micro-manager, Nick put everybody in a room, pushed up the faders and tried to capture the magic. And that he did, on Elvis Costello’s game-changing debut, "My Aim Is […]

The first year I lived in Utah my favorite off-slope haunt was the library. It was there that I discovered the rest of J.D. Salinger’s works, reading all about Franny & Zooey, got my favorite albums on cassette and checked out Bob Greene’s book about being on tour with Alice Cooper, "Billion Dollar Baby". Most […]

I don’t know this woman, I know nothing of her book, I’m just reprinting this to illustrate what a creator has to do to get noticed, to make it today. It’s no different for a band. You can’t rely on the company, you’ve got to rely on YOURSELF! Hey Bob, Your comment about Amazon’s Kindle […]