"I bought three or four to give to friends!" We were sitting inside the cafeteria at Mid-Vail during the blowingest snowstorm imaginable and struck up a conversation with the sixtysomething gentleman who sat down at our table.  Turned out he was a restructuring specialist from Dallas.  He’d booked this trip long ago.  If he hadn’t […]

You don’t want to pay for the rights, you want to be the MANAGER!  The manager gets his equity for free.  Funny how Irving Azoff trumped Michaels Rapino and Cohl regarding this, and got Ticketmaster to fork over a ton of dough for his Front Line asset to boot! The star in this stock repurchase […]

Would the Stones play Coachella? Who gives a shit about the Stones.  But Phish fans are diehards.  Phishheads believe that Phish is God.  They trekked to see the band at its own festivals, year after year.  Is the band afraid they can’t sell a ticket anymore? This is no way to come back, playing it […]

We’ve got to get more people to go to more shows. It’s not like it’s a hidden lesson.  The cell phone companies learned this long ago.  You drop the price, you get more people signed up.  My ex-wife had a cell phone twenty years ago.  It cost $1100 and calls were a buck a minute.  […]