Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Ted Talk-Simon Sinek

"People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it." Why does Justin Bieber make music?  Is it because he wants to share his view, wants to inspire the younger generation to change the world?  Or because he wants to get rich. Let’s skew a bit older.  To Katy Perry.  Why does she […]

E-Mail Of The Day

Subject: Re: A Front-Row Seat, to Go? Rock Fans Pay for PerksBob- I have contemplated for weeks to write you and finally deciding to do so now based on the items coming out about prices. I attended a few Bon Jovi shows this past winter/spring and wanted to share some insight. The 1st one was […]

E-Mail Of The Day

Bob- As a personal manager I have a bit of an ax to grind with you continually blaming the acts for high ticket prices. To some degree we’re all guilty in allowing it to happen, but blaming it on the artists ignores how it ever got that way. In the "good old days" the artist […]

Glee At The Gibson

Kids don’t like to compete, they like to PARTICIPATE! "American Idol" is over.  The construct was the contest, the appeal was the banter…  Paula may have known bupkes about music, but she was a great foil for Simon, whose acerbic comments broke societal taboos and made us turn our heads the way we rubberneck to […]