Archive for the 'The Music' Category


Farewell Yellow Brick Road

Spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/3En9fUa 1 This was not your father’s stadium show. Wait a minute, I am that father! At least the age of said fathers, I have no kids. Stadium shows were a new thing. They were a creation of demand. Just that many people wanted to go to the show, to see an act […]

Mailbag

From: Dan Millen Subject: Re: Ticketmaster Swift Snafu Date: November 17, 2022 at 2:37:01 PM PST Great time to load up on LYV stock! I call it the TM hate trade. Every time some kerfuffle happens with LYV and ticketmaster people dump the stock, it drops $5-10 and I grab some more, it always creeps […]

More Grammys/TikTok

“Apparently Bob Lefsetz doesn’t have a TikTok or he’d see we *did* livestream Grammy Noms on the platform this morning. His other screed today was about ‘krinkly fries’ so dude clearly has a lock on the priorities of youth culture.” John Loken @kidmedium Followers: 859 Job according to LinkedIn: Marketer at the Recording Academy Now […]

The Grammy Nominations

How did the Grammys become the Oscars? You know, an organization that is so inside it honors “art” that most people have never consumed. Yes, the Oscars are famous for this. The big movies never get nominated, or they are as part of an expanded list to pay homage to the hoi polloi but never […]