Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


School Of Rock Convention

They’re doing God’s work. While the rest of America is dashing for cash, while wannabe musicians keep complaining about Spotify, as if they could hold back the future, as if they were owed a living in music, a ragtag band of musicians and entrepreneurs is birthing the next generation of rock and rollers for the […]

Jimmy Iovine At The Vanity Fair Conference

“Jimmy Iovine wants Apple to save the world from free music” It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Or one can just say that every time Jimmy Iovine opens his mouth he digs his hole deeper. Let’s rewind the clock all the way back to 2004, January of that year, when Jimmy Iovine stumbled through […]

Kevin Cronin Weighs In

Hi Bob, I love John Boylan. His blog about the recording of “Roll With The Changes” and our ‘Tuna Fish’ album, and the genius of Paul Grupp, and the enduring support of Epic Records during those golden years of the music industry, and his complimentary comments about the REO band members were all cool, but […]

The Bill Graham Exhibit

Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution Music was our tech. The only difference was the older generation pooh-poohed it, our parents were not our friends, and you had to leave your house to experience it. But over the course of a decade the entire younger generation was infected by the sounds made by […]