1 How did everybody know? It’s a big city, but you run into people you know everywhere. You can’t go to a show without seeing someone you went to school with, someone you met at a party, but on Wednesday night I didn’t recognize ANYBODY! Other than a handful of music business insiders, but there […]

Fred Mollin has a new book, “Unplugged: Stories and Secrets from a Life of Making Records, Scoring Film, and Working with the Legends of Music.” Apple: https://shorturl.at/Bx1CB     https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/183387c9-112a-48ca-96e9-3cdaa4107a16/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-fred-mollin

Spotify playlist: https://shorturl.at/neBm0 1 The Beach Boys were selling the California Dream. And I bought it hook, line and sinker. Today California is a pejorative. The whipping boy of the right. And many on the left too. They have contempt for the Golden State, primarily because living here is SO F*CKING GOOD! Sure, real estate […]

RE: The Stax Documentary In your review of the Stax documentary you mentioned Stax being “screwed by Jerry Wexler” such that “Atlantic ends up with all the Masters.” However, technically, the latter statement is incorrect. When Jim Stewart made the deal with Jerry Wexler, Stax (now Concord) actually retained ownership of the Masters. But that was because the deal was […]