Indie labels thrive because they’re a trusted source. I just went to Gorsuch to shop skis.  Billy’s my trusted source. There’s too much information in this world.  We need filters to break it down, separate the wheat from the chaff, present us with options/choices we can understand. Billy buys only a few brands, and only […]

THE OLD GUARD Just want to return to the old days. What are the old days? The nineties. Yes, the CD replacement business still existed, you could only buy albums, which were exorbitantly priced, and Napster had not yet arrived on the scene.  But the most important element was exhibition.  Promotion.  Radio and TV.  The […]

BACK TO THE BARS Yesterday, Jerry Greenberg e-mailed an interview to me.  Reading to the end, I found it was hype for a new outfit he’s on the board of, once a promotion man, always a promotion man, but before I got there I read this, in response to a query whether video killed the […]

I got my merit badge. For every gig of the summer tour, all eighteen of them, Phish sells a merit badge.  Yup, just like the Boy Scouts…if you get ’em all, you can buy a sash, sew ’em on and show off. That’s what we used to do in the Boy Scouts. Yes, I’m an […]