All the focus is on streaming numbers when it should be on how many tickets you can sell. Pop music is a highly-promoted arena based on a single song, which may stream prodigiously, but that does not mean the act has any fans. Fans are made live. That’s where the bond is sealed. For nearly […]

https://x.com/MrGameHunter/status/2087737677885866359 Now that made me smile. I’ve been reading about this all day, how Ritchie Blackmore was going to return to Deep Purple for one night only, FOR ONE SONG ONLY! It’s been 33 years. Then again, this means that Ritchie played with Purple in the nineties. It’s hard to keep Purple history straight. After […]

Business is good, but it’s meaningless. You can look at the concert grosses and be stunned that this many people are paying this much money to go see these acts, but really, it’s about the audience, not the performers. Now in the sixties, venues had seats. Even clubs. Into the seventies too. And then they […]

From: Wendy Waldman Subject: Re: Social Media Is the New Rock and Roll Date: July 21, 2026 at 10:46:15?PM MDT I love TT. Been following it a long time. First post I did on it was years ago of my cat’s first new year, with a re-write of Dylan’s “If Dogs Run Free” I think […]