Archive for 2023/07


Kevin Cronin-This Week’s Podcast

Mr. REO Speedwagon. Kevin is open and honest, he’s your best friend. This is the entire story, from Illinois to leaving the band to “Hi Infidelity” to “Ozark.” A great listen. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kevin-cronin/id1316200737?i=1000621745239 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/0a39f5ee-7deb-41f3-8cdc-019c6ff2a536/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-kevin-cronin https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast/episode/kevin-cronin-305424402

Gaming The System

Focus on sales, they’re disproportionately counted on the chart. Although you can sell CDs and files, focus on vinyl, people buy it as a souvenir and oftentimes don’t even listen to it, but the chart doesn’t care. Make unique, multiple vinyl. So fans have to buy more than one disc. Lie. There is no music […]

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band At The Vilar

They’re still doing it. Even though Jeff Hanna is 76 and Jimmie Fadden is 75. Musicians never stop, unlike civilians. Everybody I know not in the music business is talking about retiring, or is already retired, whereas musicians ten or twenty years older are still plying the boards, because they love their jobs, along with […]

Rock’s Resurgence

Well, that’s classic rock. There’s so much info in the pipeline today that anything important oftentimes goes unheeded, or flows down the river with the overwhelming detritus of what is called internet news and most people remain unaware of it. I wake up every morning and read the news on my phone and am agitated […]