Re: Concert Promotion I’ve been saying the same thing for years. In the US, without Don Fox’s committment and belief I would not have broken BTO, Bryan Adams, Loverboy or Michael Buble. The same can be said for promoters around the world. The problem is there seems to be an agency vs promoter battle. It […]

So I’m out to dinner with a concert promoter.  He can’t understand the adversarial relationship between promoters and acts.  According to him, the promoter is the band’s BEST FRIEND! Think about it.  Who else is going to invest so much money in the band’s career? That’s what we’ve come to.  The labels are bankrupt, if […]

That’s Steve Jobs.  Responsible for the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Not responsible for broadband, Napster, CD burning, hard-drive swapping and the rest of the elements that contributed to the demise of the old recording industry.  As a matter of fact, Jobs was last.  Macs came without CD burners.  And Rio released […]

Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low… If you went to college in the early seventies, you know these words by heart.  It’s Gregg Allman’s opening line from the finest concert album of all time, "Live At Fillmore East".  And last night, the band performed that album from start to finish, I’d say note […]