Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


The Product Is Not Enough

If you build it they will not come. Your challenge is getting noticed. So you may be sitting at home, in your beautiful house, with your beautiful wife, asking me…DIDN’T YOU SAY JUST THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE? Yes, in the last decade. Things changed. Bob Dylan sang about that, but no one seems to realize the […]

The Grammys Are More Important Than Ever

Hanging with a bunch of douche bag insiders for a week? WORTHLESS! Performing on the telecast or winning one of the top four awards? PRICELESS! Welcome to 2018, where you just can’t get your message out. There’s too much noise. How are you going to cut through that clutter? By appearing on the Grammy telecast. […]

The Elliott Murphy Documentary

He’s not happy. But that’s the ethos of an artist, not a businessman. And we’ve all become business people. In the limited rock press, a fraction of what it is today, filled with press releases and the mass opinions of the great unwashed, Elliott Murphy got traction with his 1973 album “Aquashow.” But it was […]

Recorded Versus Live

Maybe we’ve got it all wrong. Maybe the record isn’t the advertisement for the live show, but the live show is the advertisement for the record! Think about this. It’s only been a hundred years or so that we’ve had recorded music. But prior to that, for millennia, music triumphed. And it wasn’t until the […]