I saw Gene Simmons yesterday in the Hagstrom booth at NAMM.  I’d like to tell you there were groupies, clamoring to be added to the tongued-one’s Polaroid collection, but there were just a few geeks, looking at this intelligent man not quite as smart as he’d like us to believe who’s great at selling and […]

Bob, We’ve never actually met before, but I feel like I have read hundreds of your emails over the years and they were all forwarded to me by my father, Gary Kurfirst.  I know he agreed with a lot of what you had to say about the music business and he admired your writing abilities […]

Does anybody want a Palm Pilot?  How about a Zip drive? Technology moves fast.  Declaring obsolescent yesterday’s uber-desirable product.  The key is to ride the wave, get in at the right time, delivering what the public wants, and then get out. But the music industry doesn’t seem to get this.  It believes there’s going to […]

He’s gonna die. That’s what I thought after reading the following article: ‘Hormone imbalance’ raises question of cancer Apple cultists never believed Steve Jobs was ill.  They bought the rationalization for his non-appearance at Macworld.  Apple didn’t own the conference.  The timing of the show didn’t always fit the company’s product cycle.  Apple was pulling […]