Archive for 2008/12


Phish At Bonnaroo

Would the Stones play Coachella? Who gives a shit about the Stones.  But Phish fans are diehards.  Phishheads believe that Phish is God.  They trekked to see the band at its own festivals, year after year.  Is the band afraid they can’t sell a ticket anymore? This is no way to come back, playing it […]

Season Pass

We’ve got to get more people to go to more shows. It’s not like it’s a hidden lesson.  The cell phone companies learned this long ago.  You drop the price, you get more people signed up.  My ex-wife had a cell phone twenty years ago.  It cost $1100 and calls were a buck a minute.  […]

Corey Smith

Lewi wondered where the money was going to come from.  Diarmuid said that the winners used to pay for the losers at Warner Brothers, but now the extreme winners have gone indie and there’s not enough cash for R&D.  What a dilemma! Marty said all you had to do was release the equity in the […]

Music Does Not Drive The Culture

Fuck Facebook.  Mark Zuckerberg is a pompous, socially-impaired nitwit who has managed to connect a ton of people but not make any money. That’s what’s wrong with these Web hypes.  They’ve got very short shelf lives.  Because they just can’t make any money!  Wouldn’t it be cool to order an ice cream sandwich on the […]