Boy did Andy Lack fuck THIS one up. As you will remember, the Warner BMG merger broke up over valuation.  As in Bertelsmann wanted more.  The question arises, WAS IT WORTH MORE? We know how the Warner movie played out.  Richard Parsons, knowing nothing about music, reading the PRESS instead of being knowledgeable about his […]

You see in the sixties, when the Beatles hit, we lived in one big homogenous Top Forty world.  Sure, there was a jazz scene.  And a big band scene.  But Top Forty was dominant, until the advent of underground FM radio.  Then the scene bifurcated.  It became about those in the know, and those out […]

1. CD sales will continue to tank Sometime in the next twelve to eighteen months CD sales are going to decline so precipitously as to cause the major labels to rethink their digital strategy.  With the iTunes Store no replacement for discs, they’ll be forced to authorize a new method of distribution, just to maintain […]

So we fired up Monica’s boxed set of the Monterey Pop concerts.  She and Felice wanted to relive their past.  After all, they went when they were just fifteen, without their parents knowing. And I expected nostalgia.  I didn’t expect to be overwhelmed.  I didn’t expect to be jetted back to another era, when music […]