Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Rock Band/Guitar Hero

Does anybody want a Palm Pilot?  How about a Zip drive? Technology moves fast.  Declaring obsolescent yesterday’s uber-desirable product.  The key is to ride the wave, get in at the right time, delivering what the public wants, and then get out. But the music industry doesn’t seem to get this.  It believes there’s going to […]

American Idol

This is going to change my family’s life. That’s what a number of contestants said after winning a ticket to Hollywood last night.  Not that I’ve been woodshedding, my dream is to be backed up by Jeff Beck and Jim Keltner, to jam with John Mayer, but that if all goes well, I’m going to […]

You Gotta Problem

But there’s a big fat pointThat you seem to be missingAnd it’s driving you to distractionThat doesn’t seemTo stop you in the leastOr halt this obsession That’s got you goin’ backWeek after weekDay after dayHour after hourFrom where you cameFor more of the same I got Amazon credit for using their service.  Not to buy […]

The Money

It’s coming from the promoter. In Aspen, Jim Lewi and Diarmuid Quinn lamented that there was nowhere to get cash anymore.  That the label couldn’t afford to fund everything.  Where was the money going to come from? Two weeks later a promoter who was in attendance laughed.  He told me the promoter was the new […]