In the fall of 2008, it was a buyer’s market in automobiles.  Wall Street had crashed and not only were manufacturers in trouble, dealers were scrambling too.  After all, it may say Lexus on the dealership, but it’s owned by a third party, which is financing inventory and has to get rid of it or […]

Can everyone please get off the bullshit train, or this newsletter will need a Psychiatrist. Live Nation thinks they can break an act in a short amount of time, Randy Philips thinks that Justin Bieber is a prodigy and 30 years later, Tom Ross is NOW singing the praises of the promoters. To be productive, […]

From: Tom RossSubject: Creativity You claim "the fix" to the music business won’t come from the traditional promoters because they were just businessmen looking for profit.  BULLSHIT.  The pioneers who built the music business were the original risk takers who put their own money at risk because they wanted to be part of the explosion […]

There’s a fascinating and quite boring article in the latest issue of "Newsweek" about the creativity gap, how creativity is declining in America.  Reading it I couldn’t stop thinking about the music business. Ahmet Ertegun wrote songs.  Sure, he liked getting paid, but getting rich was not his primary motive for getting into the business, […]