From: Dave Frey Subject: Re: Re-The New Mad Dogs & Englishmen Movie Hi Bob, As a promoter it’s rare to get props so I really appreciate you mentioning Lockn’ in your Learning To Live Together letter. During my 7-year run with Pete Shapiro our thing was to try to present once-in-a-lifetime artist collaborations. We had some […]

From: Chris Kimsey Subject: Re: Wild World Hi Bob ,What a joy to read your blog about Cat Stevens and Mona Bone Jackon . I was the assistant engineer on the album . It was recorded at Olympic Studio 2, with Paul Samwell-Smith producing and George Chkiantz engineering. That album and those songs shaped my […]

You are painfully spot on about those last few shows of a tour making up for the first several that break even or maybe even lose money. That is one thing making this summer very difficult. Most people can’t wrap their heads around a band selling out the Garden and not making a cent, but […]

Every show has to play. If a band member, even a member of the entourage, gets infected with Covid-19 it’s a disaster. Don’t expect the hoi polloi to understand touring, after all they can’t understand ticketing, not even the government can understand ticketing, the public thinks that Ticketmaster gets all the fees and the scalpers […]