Be afraid, be very afraid. Especially when Lucian Grainge makes Edgar Bronfman, Jr. look like a paragon of openness and reasonableness. If you were watching this hearing, and you knew nothing about the law, were just deciding whether the Universal/EMI merger should go through on fairness, you’d say NO WAY! Lucian Grainge was so evasive […]

I think I’m switching sides. I think I’m against this merger. On one hand I’ve been very influenced by Peter Paterno, who’s convinced me market forces always triumph, that the government does not need to get involved. Hell, look at Microsoft… It squandered its dominance all by itself. As for Live Nation and Ticketmaster… There […]

We’re waiting for the older generation to die. The most insightful thing I’ve heard this year emanated from the lips of Irving Azoff, he said Lucian Grainge thought his competition was Doug Morris. Do you see what happened here? Doug got eased out of Universal because he was too old. So he’s on this vendetta […]

I’M OLD Now you’re laughing hysterically, chiding grandpa. But you’re missing the point. The twelve year old girls in attendance not only have no idea who the Four Seasons, Bobby Sherman, New Kids On The Block and the Backstreet Boys are, they didn’t grow up buying CDs and they never knew a time when there […]