Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Me In Ibiza

I can’t watch myself, but maybe you’d like to. I don’t want to be one of those people trumpeting my personal appearances…on Friday I’m in Philadelphia, come on down! But as a reader of my words…maybe you’d like to see me live and in action, the man behind the b.s. I didn’t know this was […]

Tom Petty At The Fonda

SO YOU WANT TO BE A ROCK ‘N’ ROLL STAR So you want to be a rock ‘n’ roll star Then listen now to what I say Just get an electric guitar Then take some time And learn how to play We all took lessons. First it was Peter, Paul & Mary, the folkies, suddenly […]

E-Mail Of The Day+-reboot (read to the end and be sure to click on the link & watch the video)

Subject: Queens of the Stone Age first week sales. Interscope only manages to move 52,000 copies first week of their last album (2007). How much have record sales decreased since 2007? Now they’re with Matador and their new record appears on track to sell 85,000 first week. How does that happen? Have the major labels […]

Tell Me What You Want, And I’ll Give You What You Need

Yes, that’s a twist on the Doobie Brothers’ number. But this has nothing to do with that Northern California band. That’s what separates artists from everybody else. They don’t give people what they want, they give people what they NEED! If you think you know what people want, you’re dreaming. They can’t articulate it. Hell, […]