I’m listening to this new Tom Petty album.  I haven’t reached a final verdict.  But I already know it’s about listening.  About dropping the needle and letting the entire opus play again and again as it sinks into your brain. It’s not about the hit single, but the experience. And it used to be this […]

Once upon a time this only referred to the talking heads in Washington, D.C., prognosticating on politics like they really knew what was going on in the rest of the country when they didn’t.  Now it applies to all major media, from TV to newspapers, they’re out of touch. Last week Steve Jobs took to […]

This was done all wrong, too last century. Bottom line, today you’ve got to promote a show.  JT and Carole King had it right.  Do the intimate performance first, and then tour on the ultimate recorded product thereafter.  If Sting had made the album/DVD first, and had done a deal with PBS for pledge break […]

An agent: Why are shows tanking? When live nation formed promoters that had risked their own dollar retired. The ones that remained didn’t feel the hit as bad when they lost company money. Many of their buyers don’t know what it is like to lose their own money.  The buyers have lost touch with the […]