I didn’t get to sleep until 3 AM Saturday because I was riveted by this book.  Fred Goodman was telling the story of the implosion of the Warner Music Group. It seems like ancient history.  But fifteen years ago, Bob Morgado and Doug Morris conspired to exclude Bob Krasnow and demote Mo Ostin so they […]

I seriously doubt the management team of Live Nation is capable of running the company.  Concert promotion is about shows, not Wall Street presentations (which the company also does poorly.) You’ve got to read the comments about Tom Petty’s show at the Gorge.  There’s no excuse for an experience like this. Before Live Nation acquired […]

I’m crying. This weekend the buzz was about "Inception".  Movies are great, but they can’t touch you like a song.  Like "Message To My Girl".  By Split Enz. You haven’t heard it.  I had it on a cassette.  I remember playing it in my old car with my old wife.  It reminds me of a […]

In the fall of 2008, it was a buyer’s market in automobiles.  Wall Street had crashed and not only were manufacturers in trouble, dealers were scrambling too.  After all, it may say Lexus on the dealership, but it’s owned by a third party, which is financing inventory and has to get rid of it or […]