“Jimmy Iovine wants Apple to save the world from free music” It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Or one can just say that every time Jimmy Iovine opens his mouth he digs his hole deeper. Let’s rewind the clock all the way back to 2004, January of that year, when Jimmy Iovine stumbled through […]

Hi Bob, I love John Boylan. His blog about the recording of “Roll With The Changes” and our ‘Tuna Fish’ album, and the genius of Paul Grupp, and the enduring support of Epic Records during those golden years of the music industry, and his complimentary comments about the REO band members were all cool, but […]

Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution Music was our tech. The only difference was the older generation pooh-poohed it, our parents were not our friends, and you had to leave your house to experience it. But over the course of a decade the entire younger generation was infected by the sounds made by […]

Could this be the future of the music business? ARTIST DEVELOPMENT Oldsters lament the disappearance of this. Wherein labels subsidized the creativity of musicians. The term has been bastardized in the twenty first century, “artist development” means jetting an act from nowhere to stardom over a short period of time, usually in one album cycle. […]