Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


The Bear-Final Season

Spoiler alert: I don’t reveal everything, but if you want to be fresh when you watch this series, beware. This was a painful watch. If I hadn’t invested my time in the previous seasons, I would have stopped. This is what happens when art supersedes plot. You see this most in literature today. Which tend […]

Innovation

I read this article about Tide: “Tide Already Dominates Detergent. Why Is P&G Pushing a New Version? – The company controls about 60% of the market, but won’t stop reinventing. Now, it’s betting the future of laundry is ’tiles.’” https://www.wsj.com/business/tide-laundry-soap-procter-gamble-2938e8b6 https://apple.news/A43i010C7TpOk1pHMBgFdnQ Tide was introduced in 1946, before that Procter & Gamble purveyed Duz and Oxydol, […]

Re-Jon Anderson & the Band Geeks in Thousand Oaks

My oldest daughter just turned 41.  She was conceived in a Chevy van with the mural from the Relayer album on the side.  I still can’t get her to enjoy Yes. Al Jones Covington, LA ________________________________ Glad you got to see Jon with the Band Geeks. Check out “perpetual change” which is their live album.  It’s […]

America 250

You don’t want to fail in public. This is why acts are wary of stretching to play larger venues. Nothing puts a stink upon your act like empty seats. Forget the buzz on the outside, the business and the social media scuttlebutt, the attendees are also turned off. What are they doing there if everybody […]