Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Kid Rock Exchange

From: Kid RockSubject: Re: Another Vail TaleTo: Bob Lefsetz Yo, anybody scalping ski or airline tickets, eating up the good seats with there computers first so they can re sell them?? – no, u can’t do it….why can u do it with music….? Whole different ballgame, you out of all people outta know this! Everything […]

Lessons From A Thermostat

The Nest Learning Thermostat Cool engenders conversation. This is what we used to sell in the music business. Stuff that listeners just could not help talking about. Everybody’s talking about the Learning Thermostat, that you can control remotely. It wasn’t shoved down our throats, there were just a couple of newspaper reviews and now, like […]

Another Vail Tale

$116 a day. That’s what it costs to ski at Vail this week. And that’s positively insane! The dirty little secret? Almost no one pays it. I bought an Epic Pass. Last March. For $649. Good for not only every day at Vail, but Beaver Creek and ski resorts as far-flung as Lake Tahoe, I […]

Tone-Deaf Businessmen

In retrospect, suing P2P traders was the beginning of the end. Don’t listen to the RIAA disinformation campaign. Music is the canary in the coal mine, the first business to be transformed by the Internet and still leading. What the music industry didn’t know was not only that it was being blindsided by P2P trading, […]