One could argue that SoundScan ruined the record business.  Oldsters might say the phony charts of yore, manipulated by the labels, were better for the health of the industry, that they allowed a record to build and grow.  But it’s more interesting to look at it from the other direction, how the first week became […]

oh, bob; shame, shame, shame and very bipolar…. if there was an end of the world as you knew it it might have been mick doing "rock rambo" with an equally pathetic anthony hopkins in FREEJACK or keith with his LSD pietro o’toole cameoette in the most recent of the johnny depp PIRATES misadventures, but […]

Bob, Let me first say that i have been reading your emails for years and, although you sometimes make me second guess my life choices, i respect your perspective and think, for the most part, you are spot on. For years i have been wondering not only what i would write you but when the […]

Used to be, no one could make as much money as a rock star. Baseball players were hobbled by the reserve clause.  Basketball hadn’t known Larry or Magic, Dr. J was not ubiquitous.  As for football…the players were expendable, and coaches didn’t make the money, but owners.  Hedge funds had not been invented yet.  Or, […]