Jeff Bezos to Charlie Rose: "Before if you were making a product, the right business strategy was to put 70% of your attention, energy, and dollars into shouting about a product, and 30% into making a great product. So you could win with a mediocre product, if you were a good enough marketer. That is […]

MUSIC OR THE ECONOMY? No one knows for sure.  Is business bad because ticket prices are too high for acts that have been on the road too often playing old material while new acts are ever-harder to develop or is it just that the economy sucks? It’s unclear. But you can’t trust the prognostications. "Pollstar" […]

He played "Free Bird". I could have missed it.  Too many gigs with Jackson and his band playing the same arrangements of too many lame new songs had my desire flagging.  Not that Jackson is unable to do anything good new, just listen to "Never Stop" from "The Naked Ride Home".  It’s just that when […]

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