Irving broke the model. Has there ever been a greater friend to the artist?  With this much power? Geffen screwed Laura Nyro with the Tuna Fish Music deal, and ultimately sued Neil Young.  And Bob Dylan signed to Asylum and then abandoned Geffen, went back to Columbia.  But Irving’s artists stick with him.  Because no […]

It all comes down to demand.  Can the act draw a crowd, is it someone people want to see? Doesn’t matter how great the venue is, certainly doesn’t matter how great the promoter is, it comes down to the act. Then again, people went to the Fillmores, the original ones, not the Live nation rebrands, […]

So I’m sitting at the kitchen table, my feet atop it, searching for enough light to read my Kindle, thinking that this book has become generic, that it’s disappointing me and then… Did you get that e-mail today?  The page everybody’s passing from Boing! Boing!, about the making of 10cc’s "I’m Not In Love"? The […]

The acts have to play to empty seats. So Barbra Streisand decides to go back on tour.  Makes a deal with Michael Cohl.  You know the drill, he advances a shitload of money and you perform.  Only one problem, Barbra couldn’t sell the tickets.  Prices were too high, she’d already done her farewell tour.  But […]