Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Sanctuary

How long til Sanctuary goes out of business? My inside mole told me they were two hundred million in the hole.  In the limo I forgot to ask him whether he meant dollars or pounds, but in either event, that’s a lot of debt.  Especially when you’ve got little guaranteed income. Oh, they’ve got a […]

GetIntoTheBiz.com

Donald Trump is a terrible businessman.  Just check his track record in Atlantic City for evidence.  But in this crazy, fucked-up media world where egomaniacs on private jets believe everybody not them is a moron, he’s sold as a hero, an icon, a devilishly smart, handsome adonis with business acumen no mortal man possesses. And, […]

More Spitzer

Did Andy Lack set Sony up? My e-mail box is starting to fill, my phone is starting to ring.  Insiders smell something fishy.  Or, as Woodward and Bernstein used to put it, FOLLOW THE MONEY! Andy Lack is an outsider.  He’s new to the music business.  It doesn’t add up to him.  All this pay […]

Eliot Spitzer

Can’t they send someone to jail?  Maybe Donnie Ienner?  Or Charlie Walk? Or how about a really big fish.  Clive Davis.  Operating like a Mafia kingpin, having all his henchmen do the work, making like he’s untouchable. Ten million dollars?  A drop in the bucket? Gonna eliminate pay for play? No way. Then again, everyone’s […]