Archive for 2023/11


Joan Baez-This Week’s Podcast

The legend. And the subject of the new documentary film “I Am a Noise.” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joan-baez/id1316200737?i=1000634248578 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/e994e000-4139-4758-a2f0-6a8b789139f9/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-joan-baez

Mailbag

From: Craig Anderton Subject: Re: Future Ticket Sales Bob, during the pandemic there was an explosion in sales of music and recording equipment. Companies thought this would create a new generation of musicians and it would go on forever. Well, it didn’t. Music is a discipline and despite the “kids just push buttons these days” […]

Daryl Hall & Todd Rundgren At The Pantages

If shows were this good, I’d go out every night. I went to hear “Foolish Pride” and “Black Maria,” but I got so much more. Todd was the opener. And it was Daryl’s crowd. You could tell by the applause. It was like they didn’t realize that what they were experiencing was extremely rare. After […]

Declan McKenna At The Novo

WHO? The World Series was the least watched ever. It averaged 9.11 million viewers, a 23% decline from 2022’s 11.78 million. In a country of 331.9 million. That’s right, not even 10% of Americans watched the World Series. As a matter of fact, only 3.6% of Americans watched the Series. And you know oldsters are […]