I’m pissed off.  Someone I agreed to go to lunch with, and I won’t go to lunch with anybody, just worked me on a track.  One with synthetic drums akin to those manufactured by a TR-808 back in 1982.  That’s what’s wrong with mainstream music, it’s all lowest common denominator, that’s what people want to […]

There’s a story in yesterday’s "Wall Street Journal" how the plastic cork has made inroads in the world of wine.  One quote rang so true, it reminded me of the music business: "By the 1990s, retailers and wineries were clamoring for a solution to wine taint but the cork industry didn’t respond. ‘No industry with […]

Like any good manager, Dave Frey confronted Jerry Moss, shouldn’t the label work one more single off the Blues Traveler album? Jerry said no.  He said it was time to go back into the studio and make another record.  And that hits were lucky accidents. So the band did as Jerry said.  They recorded a […]

It’s back.  And its return has nothing to do with a change in record company strategy, no big time thinking on the part of managers or acts, but a change in the marketplace. It’s just about impossible to be ubiquitous.  And the cost of mainstream acceptance is prohibitive, not only in dollars, but career.  If […]