Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


CMW Crowdfunding Panel

Never send the B team. There’s a reason why Pandora is so successful. Tim Westergren. The company’s tireless leader is not only willing to show up everywhere, he’s impassioned, he’s a believer, hell, I’ve always said Westergren’s selling a religion, not a radio service. And that’s how I felt about Benji Rogers of PledgeMusic yesterday. […]

CMW Day One

Steve Lillywhite said Brian May is overlooked as a guitar great, that Clapton and Beck had impeccable technique, but May had an incredible sound! I may be too old for this. Despite all the hype that fifty is the new forty and sixty is the new fifty, if not forty five, despite all the press […]

Then/Now-Niche Edition

THEN Howard Stern left terrestrial too early, he became societally marginalized. NOW Howard is king of his niche and reaches a larger audience than any of the late night talk shows. Reminds me of Bryan Adams recording “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You.” AOR considered him a sell-out. Soon AOR was toast and […]

Clive’s Book-Final?

No one has ever finished this book, not unless they were paid to do so, because the last two thirds is UNREADABLE! Think I’m on a vendetta? Then peruse the review in yesterday’s “New York Times”: Arista Cat How come the message didn’t get out? How come no one has said reading this book is […]