I’m creeped out.  I just finished watching "Mildred Pierce" on HBO and it reminded me of someone I know in the music business.  More than one, in fact.  People who know where they want to go and will do anything to get there.  They’re loyal only to themselves.  They’re playing a game.  With people instead […]

Grammy Chief Defends Award Cuts It’s the hated Mike Greene who made the Grammys what they are today.  He wanted a big tent, he wanted a large membership, he wanted equality, if not pure independence, from the major labels and CBS. But Mike Greene is gone. And now we’ve got a caretaker. What do you […]

My mother broke her hip. It wasn’t because she was aged and it gave out, but because the former MD, an anesthesiologist, an eightysomething woman, forgot to put her car in park and it rolled back and hit my mother’s walker and my mother fell and… When I got the news I went numb.  My […]

The value is in the mailing list. Let me make this simple.  It doesn’t matter what the price of the event is if nobody knows about it. So I’m having dinner with a promoter last night.  And he’s telling me about this gig, multiple nights, tens of thousands of seats, and that he made a […]