1. Misconception Of The Internet Physical sales were greatest at the height of Napster.  That’s no mystery.  Everybody was EXCITED about music.  People who never bought a CD, who never listened to music radio, were suddenly acquiring music again.  Proving the axiom that the Net is a GIANT opportunity to get NON-BUYERS consuming music. To […]

I guess we’ve got to blame the Stones.  Their 1981 partnership with Jovan broke the barrier and set the trend. It’s important to start with this event because it proves the lie everybody in the touring business has been spouting for the following twenty five years.  That acts NEED sponsors to make ends meet.  That […]

Bertelsmann Is Said to Want Ouster of Sony BMG Chief Who is going to fix the music business? I was stunned last week in the U.K. to find it’s business as usual.  You’ve got managers and acts sucking at the tit of the major labels and everyone decrying the power of the iTunes Music Store.  […]

So Harry’s giving me a tour of Barnes.  His hood, as the homies would say. It’s just west of where Richard lives.  Across Putney Bridge.  There’s a main drag, or as they call it here, a HIGH Street, with an endless row off non-chain shops.  Even an electrical shop, where Harry had his Dyson fixed.  […]