Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Power

“No one gives you power. You have to take it from them.” Nancy Pelosi Nancy Pelosi’s Last Battle “You have to skate where the puck is going, not where it has been.” Wayne Gretzky’s statement could be the most famous aphorism of our lifetimes, yet still many ignore it. That’s why Irving Azoff continues to […]

Richie Furay Delivers At The Troubadour

Well there’s just a little bit of magic In the country music we’re singin’ Richie Furay did not expect to be here fifty years later, and neither did we. It’s not that we saw rock music as a fad, but that we thought we’d never get old, and if per chance we did, we’d be […]

CMA Ratings Decline

34% in the 18-49 target demo, and 29.5% overall. Is it television or is it the music? Both. Let’s start with TV, we no longer live in a monoculture, the only appointment TV is the Super Bowl, not because of the game but because it’s become a national holiday, many attendees at parties don’t even […]

Proving The Point

The Eric Clapton Christmas album is amazing… and I’m a Jew… I can’t remember when Clapton had a great album… You must listen.. It’s brilliant.. Kindest Cheers, Jeff Laufer This is the kind of stuff the papers should be covering, their upper middle class demo will eat it up. Instead I have to wait fully […]