Doesn’t follow trends. Sets trends. Doesn’t give the audience what it wants. Gives the audience what it needs. Has a sense of history. If there’s no context, there’s no art. Art is a reaction, a transmogrification…unless you know where you’ve been, you don’t know where you’re going. Knows that money is secondary to art. Knows […]

Spotify YouTube Sometimes there’s no room for you in the conventional business. If you look at the Spotify Top 50, if you check out the execs at the big three major labels, you may scratch your head and ask yourself WHAT IS THIS AND WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? It’s like the mainstream recording business is […]

Re: The Go-Go’s Movie Bob, You make some good observations, as usual. But also as usual, there’s a lot more to the story. Richard Gottehrer was the perfect producer, and had the foresight to make a classic album in terms of production. When a Go-Go’s song is heard in 2020 there’s no telltale gated snare […]

Spotify Pandora Playlist: “Follow The Yellow Brick Road” – The Munchkins – 1939 – “The Wizard of Oz” “Itsy-Bitsy-Teeny-Weeny-Yellow-Polka-Dot Bikini” – Bryan Hyland – summer 1960 “The Yellow Rose Of Texas” – Mitch Miller – 1955- in “Giant” in ’56 “She Wore A Yellow Ribbon” – traditional (“Sing Along With Mitch” album from 1958 – […]