Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Labels

Maybe every record should be on Rhino. What does Universal MEAN?  Or Warner Brothers or Interscope or Sony or even Capitol.  They’re all record labels, but who KNOWS what they release.  Hell, doesn’t Capitol sell Sinatra, the Band the Beatles and YELLOWCARD?  If you know somebody who wants ALL those acts…hell, you couldn’t know a […]

Macworld

Is the new Woodstock. How is it a company purveying inert products has usurped the eyeballs of the world from the creative community? Pursuit of excellence. While the movie companies remake television shows, and genre films like "King Kong", the public ignores their efforts and looks to a relatively small entity to DAZZLE them. Been […]

Celebrities

You see Tommy Mottola got us into the celebrity game. When Tommy perfected his over the top diva paradigm it was a different era.  It was before the internet. There’s a shadow society.  Everybody in mainstream media hates it.  You see, the public now has its OWN media, and is talking amongst itself CONSTANTLY, with […]

Rockin’ New Year’s Eve

You know you’re old when the people they’re interviewing on TV are older than you. Oh, I’m not talking about the idiots packed like sardines in Times Square, rather I’m referring to the people Ryan Seacrest is interviewing.  Like the guy in charge of dropping the ball. I mean forty years ago, when I saw […]