Hey Bob. Let me respond to your email with WHY artists need an agent. The focus of my work as an agent is on territories outside of the USA, especially in Europe, Latin America, Australasia, Japan/Asia etc. Many large acts do sell the ‘Whole World Tour’ to LN or AEG. However all tours still have […]

Live Nation Wants Artists to Take Pay Cuts and Cancelation Burdens for Shows in 2021 Never EVER forget that this business runs on talent. Without the talent, there’s nothing to sell. And talent is not fungible, except maybe in the case of the festival, which I will address below. This is not the first time […]

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It’s Napster. What do we know about Napster? It happened as a result of technological change. Same deal here, but instead of high speed connections, it’s smartphone cameras. In the late nineties and early 2000s, only college students had high speed connections. The public came along later. Same deal with smartphones. Sure, some had them […]