Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Saturday’s Benefit

Anybody waiting breathlessly for this? I mean doesn’t it seem like a rerun?  Or worse, a chance for acts to get exposure? Music made it based on being different.  On not repeating itself.  "Sgt. Pepper" was a quantum leap forward from "Revolver", and the White Album could not have been predicted from listening to "Pepper".  […]

So Close

I’m just stunned how out of it I am.  If I didn’t read the newspaper I don’t think I’d have any clue what was going on. I have a friend in Seattle my age.  I reference the most obvious popular culture icons/happenings and she’s got no clue of which I’m speaking.  And she has two […]

Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well

I feel a bit like a Dixie Chick.  I stood up for what I believed and I’ve watched my subscriber list decline. I now understand why everybody’s reluctant go on the record.  The vehemence of dissension is overwhelming.  Oh, you get some reasoned debate, but mostly you receive expletives.  Reasonable debate is out of the […]

VMAs-4

Eva Longoria I guess MTV has finally matured.  Just like the networks, it now employs TV stars to goose ratings.  USED to be that the music stars were bigger than any TV star.  It’s not that TV stars have gotten any better, it’s that music stars have gotten worse. Mariah Carey The biggest selling female […]