He asked me about me. I went tonight to the Santa Monica Airport to hear Metallica.  As Marc Reiter said, how often do they play my backyard?  It was an Activision party, celebrating the launch of "Call Of Duty: Black Ops".  There were celebrities and military men, but I just went to hang with Marc […]

I first heard about Bon Iver from Nigel Grainge, who’s enthusiastic and has impeccable taste.  But I didn’t quite get it until today, when Robin Millar sent me a link: Bon Iver – Re: Stacks It was playing in the background as I was chomping through the e-mail, reading about Ticketmaster, be sure to read […]

I heard about this first from Rapino. But no one’s listening to him, they’re just hating on Live Nation. For years Rapino’s been telling everybody that LN’s average customer goes to slightly more than one show a year.  Absolutely frightening unless you’re someone who lives in the present and believes the future’s gonna look just […]

You can’t do it without help. Once upon a time, a couple of decades back, I asked David Geffen for help.  Ours was a correspondence relationship, I didn’t go to his office, I don’t even remember talking on the phone.  I believed I was hot, and with his help, I could make it. Geffen declined. […]