1 This book is bumming me out. Because that’s the way it was and it’s not that way anymore. There used to be a rock culture with defined steps, you buy an instrument, form a band, play in bars and then try to move up the ladder, get a deal and become a success. Now […]

“The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership that Rocked the World”: http://bit.ly/480ozGy 1 If you’re going to music business school… You’ll learn more in this book than you will in class. Class will teach you the mechanics, the elements of publishing, how to put on a show, you will be […]

“The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership that Rocked the World”: http://bit.ly/480ozGy I never got into Elvis until I went to Graceland. You’ve got to go. As a matter of fact, you’ve got to go to Memphis, which may be in Tennessee like Nashville, but is completely different. Memphis is […]

If you’re looking for a book to read this holiday weekend, I highly recommend this one. What we’ve got here is something conventionally called a thriller, and normally I don’t read that kind of book, but reviews have been great and the action all takes place in the heart of San Francisco tech. Jakob Kerr […]