Despite the hosannas at the end of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, the live business is going through a correction. What exactly is the reason? Well, let’s talk about the less than superstar level, those playing rooms with a capacity less than 5,000. The acts have toured too much. This is what I heard over and […]

Subject: RE: 74 Of ’74 For an interesting exercise, compare this 50-years-after-the-fact list with the Top Album list Rolling Stone actually issued in 1974. The original list had jazz or jazz-fusion albums in each of the top five spots. In this list, the top-rated jazz album is Miles Davis at 32 – and Miles wasn’t […]

Bob I’ve been saying it for 10 years now. Virtually no artist making it big these days played live before they were famous. Also, human nature is to take the shortest path to a goal involving the fewest other people. Make music on your laptop by yourself, post it, hope someone notices. Rinse and repeat. […]

Note: We all love the club experience, just like we loved Main Street and bookstores, the question is whether they’re economically viable, and if not, whether the government and more successful acts in larger venues should support them. Also, I want to draw a line between clubs that feature live bands and those that feature […]