Archive for 2019/02


Amazon

Corporations are the enemy. I would have expected this message to come from the arts first. But the arts have been infiltrated like PBS. Whether it be corporations supporting that which the public does not, or musicians sucking up to the man to get paid. But AOC doesn’t get paid. She was a bartender before. […]

Ryan Adams

Then there were cellphone cameras. Despite Cameron Crowe depicting the backstage life of a rock star as a pajama party, the truth was completely the opposite. Flawed men abusing women. You’d land in a town, play a show, and there would be groupies willing to service you. They wanted a piece of stardom, they wanted […]

Delayed Disruption

The first decade of the twenty first century was about instant disruption, the second has been about delayed disruption. Instant disruption is when a business is affected overnight. There was Napster, and before that digital photography, and then the death of newspapers and magazines. It was right in front of our very eyes, people were […]

Linda Ronstadt’s Live Album

Is it time to forget the baby boomers? Linda Ronstadt got a featured piece on the holy grail of television promotion, “CBS Sunday Morning,” yet no one is listening to her album on Spotify, and it’s quite good. Only two tracks break five digits, the rest are in four. For the math-challenged, that means “Just […]