How strong is the Apple brand?  Can the company ultimately make people buy what they don’t want? It’s a well known fact amongst insiders that Steve Jobs did not want to copy protect the tracks sold at the iTunes Music Store.  But he did so.  To comply with the wishes of major labels. Steve has […]

What’s with these Australians and their Gibson SG’s? Paul Kossoff died on an airplane.  That was bad enough, but Richard had a whole tour booked with AC/DC as his opening act.  And now the band was in London with no tour, nowhere to play.  Trying to earn his keep as an agent, Richard booked Australia’s […]

It’s kind of like listening on your transistor. Our transistor radios were like the iPods of today.  We didn’t have enough money to buy them, our parents laid out the dough.  We kept them in leather cases to prevent them from being damaged.  And, at night we put them on the dresser by our bed, […]

Can you live without the Pink Floyd performance from Live 8? Not me. And there you’ve got it.  A system that’s not set up to meet demand.  An entrenched bureaucracy so out of touch with its consumers that it confuses desire for acquisition for piracy. MTV doesn’t respect the music. EMI doesn’t respect the music. […]