Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


MTV

We are now officially in the post-MTV era. We thought P2P would bring the major labels down, but what is killing them is the same thing that killed MTV, their lack of credibility. In one weekend, one DAY actually, MTV destroyed twenty years of good will. For over a decade now, people have been saying […]

London/Philly/Toronto

It’s kind of like listening on your transistor. Our transistor radios were like the iPods of today.  We didn’t have enough money to buy them, our parents laid out the dough.  We kept them in leather cases to prevent them from being damaged.  And, at night we put them on the dresser by our bed, […]

Bittersweet Symphony!

"This is probably the best song ever written and here’s the best singer in the world, Mr. Richard Ashcroft…" Chris Martin Now THIS is IT!! This was the performance there was the most scuttlebutt about, the one that everybody was talking about, the unexpected moment, and it DELIVERS! I mean is Richard Ashcroft a star […]

Pink Floyd Via P2P

Can you live without the Pink Floyd performance from Live 8? Not me. And there you’ve got it.  A system that’s not set up to meet demand.  An entrenched bureaucracy so out of touch with its consumers that it confuses desire for acquisition for piracy. MTV doesn’t respect the music. EMI doesn’t respect the music. […]