Re: Income Inequality Killed The Music Business Bob: This is Bonnie Hayes, a songwriter and musician from the SF Bay. You and I have exchanged email before. Always enjoy your posts! I’ve been teaching at the Berklee College of Music all summer, in their regular 12 week college program, including several advanced classes of students […]

There’s great music today, there is in every period, but why were the sixties and seventies such a fertile era, why did we get not only the Beatles and the Stones, but the entire British Invasion, the San Francisco Sound and the great acts of FM radio? You’ve got to start in the U.K. Every […]

From: Peter Paterno Subject: FW: EMI Music – UPDATE To: Bob Lefsetz Ah, I so love the antitrust process.  It makes so much sense.  I especially love the part where, in their infinite wisdom, the European Antitrust Commission makes the merging companies sell off artist contracts for part of the world.  So the artist can’t […]

Chris brought Tal into Rena’s office. That’s Tal Wilkenfeld. You know, the curly-haired twenty five year old bassist most famous for playing with Jeff Beck. Hell, she’s all over YouTube, you can even see her backing up Mick Jagger. You see Tal came out at the end of the show, during “With A Little Help […]