Reading Mellencamp on the music business is like listening to Fred Silverman or another legendary network programmer lamenting the advent of cable, which decimated dominant television shows from the big three.  Mellencamp wants us all to bury our heads in the sand and jet back to 1972, or at least 1982, when he became a […]

I was just watching Seth Godin’s presentation at Google: "All Marketers are Liars" He was saying that Napster could have been successful if it launched in a nursing home.  Because it was so good, everybody would tell everybody else about it. That’s how great the original Napster was.  Seth said it only had to reach […]

From: Eric LumiereSubject: Your blog about my song, "Anthem"Date: March 20, 2009 3:58:17 PM PDTTo: bob@lefsetz.com Bob, My friend and college classmate Evan Moore (NYU Clive Davis Dept. of Recorded Music ’07)/collaborator sent me your article on my song, "Anthem", which was remixed by Filo and Peri (Bo Pericic, another classmate at the time) and […]

From: Ritch EsraSubject: Seth Godin InterviewDate: March 18, 2009 1:33:45 PM PDTTo: bob@lefsetz.com Bob,   Thought you’d enjoy this very recent interview with Seth Godin Seth Godin on the Music Business I don’t remember how I first met Ritch Esra.  I’m sure it was in e-mail, but I don’t remember the content of his missive.  […]