Are not really about AI. They’re about reduced prospects for college graduates, the detachment of techies from the general public and the fanning of the flames of AI by prognosticators and the media. It’s income inequality run rampant, I tell you. One thing we’ve learned is the tech bros are not like us. The dueling […]

Dan Beck was Michael Jackson’s product manager and has written a book about the experience, “‘You’ve Got Michael’: Living Through HIStory.” If you want to know what it was like working at a record label in the pre-internet era, this is the place. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dan-beck/id1316200737?i=1000768901251 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/8aed22c2-dda8-4684-af71-e4d4864ad6ef/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-dan-beck

Does he know how bad he was? Is he in a bubble, is it the emperor’s new clothes, does he not know how he comes across? In case you missed it, try this: It’s positively sad. Then again, athletes retire, why not musicians? Then again, musicians never retire, they say they do a few times, […]

YES! Sold out show at historic McCabe’s Guitar. I was at Arista for Willie’s first album.  We could not break him. He kept at it.  He NEVER faltered, NEVER gave up. Willie is the real deal. Mike Bon _______________________________ I am now on the older side of this business… but I am still 25 years […]