Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Satellite Radio

The window is closing on satellite radio. Its obit, and it won’t go completely out of business, just like there’s still a market for vinyl records, will read "Killed By The iPod". How did they screw up so bad? Sirius delaying its introduction until it got the kinks out of its proprietary chips. XM using […]

Finding Out

I just found out there’s a Bruce Hornsby boxed set.  Oh, you might not care, but that’s exactly the point. Been reading Lee Gomes in the "Wall Street Journal"?  Refuting "The Long Tail"?  He had some interesting statistics last week It May Be a Long Time Before the Long Tail Is Wagging the Web  but […]

Steely Dan At Red Rocks

DON’T TAKE ME ALIVE I’m a bookkeeper’s sonI don’t want to shoot no oneWell I crossed my old man back in OregonDon’t take me alive I drove cross-country with six cassettes purchased at Odyssey Music in Salt Lake City. Oh, I had thirty one other tapes, but they’d been played to death. I needed new […]

The Landscape

Just give me one thing that I can hold on toTo believe in this living is just a hard way to go "Angel From Montgomery"John Prine The future may be so bright we’ve got to wear shades, but the present is so confusing it makes us want to throw our hands in the air.  We […]