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1 Concerts are now a luxury item. The heyday of classic rock is over, when boomers and gen-X’ers went to multiple shows a year, sometimes a month, for under ten dollars. Now you don’t go to a show on a whim, it’s a splurge. As for the economics of the country, I point you to […]

Better Sony own these songs than the bank. But what we’ve learned here is all the rightsholders who sold to Hipgnosis based on Merck’s involvement… I hope you had a key man clause, which you couldn’t get anyway. Now the truth is most rightsholders are just interested in the money. As long as you pay […]

Many shows don’t sell out, who’da thunk? Yesterday everybody was complaining they couldn’t get a ticket and now they’re saying no one wants to go, which is it? What we’ve got here is the internet, where everybody reports, mostly without background knowledge, and then things are repeated as fact and… Suddenly you’ve got an issue […]