He wasn’t the average record exec. Although I first met Seymour at the Troubadour, when he approached me about something I wrote and then went into a story about Syd Nathan, it wasn’t until 2004, when I went to Tony Wilson’s In The City conference in Manchester, that we began to hang, began to bond. […]

“Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd”: https://spoti.fi/3M3k82O This is a dorm room record. I was hiking in the mountains listening to a podcast featuring my friend, the proprietor of RealSkiers.com, Jackson Hogen. We don’t agree on everything, but this was a good primer on equipment and ski areas. To buy your […]

Producer Burt Sugarman just put “The Midnight Special” on YouTube. We talk about the show as well as Burt’s career, from TV to hamburgers! You’ll be fascinated! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/burt-sugarman/id1316200737?i=1000606578815 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/dd104023-36c4-4d8e-b534-872509cd0012/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-burt-sugarman https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast/episode/burt-sugarman-301282113

I didn’t see anybody I knew. Well, that’s not completely true. John Sykes was there. And Taylor Swift. But these awards shows are usually industry clusterf*cks. The hang supersedes the show. Everybody is in the lobby, schmoozing. But that’s not what was happening last night. You see it’s no longer one unified music business anymore. […]