The story of Dire Straits from their one and only manager. iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-30806836/episode/ed-bicknell-181077899/?cmp=web_share&embed=true Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ed-bicknell/id1316200737?i=1000657274743 Spotify: https://spotify.link/qwZ2vE7z1Jb Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/8cd3cdf9-6826-4e69-ac53-a807ce7ef17e/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-ed-bicknell

You can only rip off the public so many times before there is a backlash. Wasn’t that one of the drivers of Napster, overpriced CDs with only one good track? People felt entitled to steal, they were sticking it to the man. And as Howard Stern famously learned in therapy, everybody else doesn’t need to […]

Re: Bottlerock-Day 3 Had to take a second to comment about the band Cannons (who I am not aware of) and their “live” performance not being entirely live as you mentioned in your Bottle Rock review. Thank you for calling that out. I have been on a soap box now for years about the massive […]

Now THAT’S a headliner! Bottlerock is so civilized, such a good experience, that you believe it’d be headliner independent. But it is the acts that make the difference, sans known names that appeal to many, you can’t sell out. And you need to sell nearly every ticket to make the economics work. Pearl Jam? To […]