Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Prince’s Vault

Hey, look me over Tell me do you like what you see Michael Howe asked me if I wanted to experience Prince’s vault. He was the Purple One’s last A&R guy at Warner Brothers, he’s the archivist. Who’d turn that down? So I went to a listening room in North Hollywood and… The walking wounded. […]

The TV/Music Analogy

“The Sopranos” was the Beatles. There was music before “I Want To Hold Your Hand” hit the airwaves in ’64, before the band was on “Ed Sullivan,” quite good stuff indeed, like the Four Seasons and the Beach Boys, but the Beatles were different, a quantum leap forward, in their wake came a slew of […]

The Kissing Booth

Used to be it was records that percolated in the marketplace and steadily grew off the radar, now it’s television shows, specifically “The Kissing Booth” on Netflix. Heard of it? I HADN’T!! I get this e-mail from this Wall Street analyst Rich Greenfield, he’s younger than his picture depicts, and today he’s going on about […]

Daniel Glass-This Week’s Podcast

Now it’s a mighty long way down rock ‘n’ roll Through the Bradford cities and the Oreoles From Regine’s to the Hollywood Bowl, that’s right, Daniel Glass started out in the streets and made it all the way to the top, with a few bumps along the way, but unlike so many of his contemporaries, […]