Can everyone please get off the bullshit train, or this newsletter will need a Psychiatrist. Live Nation thinks they can break an act in a short amount of time, Randy Philips thinks that Justin Bieber is a prodigy and 30 years later, Tom Ross is NOW singing the praises of the promoters. To be productive, […]

From: Tom RossSubject: Creativity You claim "the fix" to the music business won’t come from the traditional promoters because they were just businessmen looking for profit.  BULLSHIT.  The pioneers who built the music business were the original risk takers who put their own money at risk because they wanted to be part of the explosion […]

There’s a fascinating and quite boring article in the latest issue of "Newsweek" about the creativity gap, how creativity is declining in America.  Reading it I couldn’t stop thinking about the music business. Ahmet Ertegun wrote songs.  Sure, he liked getting paid, but getting rich was not his primary motive for getting into the business, […]

Latest Accessory of a Well-Equipped Band: A Festival of Its Own This is an utterly fascinating story that should be read by bands and concert promoters alike. I tell everyone that if a genie came out of a bottle and offered me the ability to go to summer camp for the rest of my life, […]