Indulge me. I’m downloading live shows.  And what’s incredible is I got this Billy Joel show from ’72 wherein his voice is still pure and high and when he sings "teller" in "The Ballad Of Billy Kid" I hear something I never did before, I get insight that has previously eluded me, even though I […]

Grammy Chief Defends Award Cuts It’s the hated Mike Greene who made the Grammys what they are today.  He wanted a big tent, he wanted a large membership, he wanted equality, if not pure independence, from the major labels and CBS. But Mike Greene is gone. And now we’ve got a caretaker. What do you […]

The value is in the mailing list. Let me make this simple.  It doesn’t matter what the price of the event is if nobody knows about it. So I’m having dinner with a promoter last night.  And he’s telling me about this gig, multiple nights, tens of thousands of seats, and that he made a […]

I don’t give a shit. The only people who care are the players.  For the rest of us, it’s like listening to a parent complain about Little League baseball. But the bottom line is, are the Grammys for the major labels and CBS or the players/members? Since no one watches the endless pre-game, where they […]