The job of the deejay is to play that which the audience will embrace.  That doesn’t mean the deejay can’t test the listeners’ limits, just that you don’t play the record for yourself, but those who are tuning in.  That’s what a recommendation service does, turn you on to stuff it thinks you’re going to […]

Now I know why I love satellite radio and hate Pandora and Last.FM. You can’t trust the public. I just tweeted, asking people to tell me about an INCREDIBLE track, something as good as Gnarls Barkley’s "Crazy". And what came back wasn’t shite, but stuff so far off the radar screen that it could never […]

Rob Light Told me he wanted to make Jeff Beck iconic.  He had a whole plan, which he delineated. What struck me was this was the head of CAA, not MCA, or EMI, Sony or WB.  That’s what labels used to do, make stars.  They had a whole team, sharing the goal of pushing the […]

You live long enough and you no longer worry about perception.  You know life is brief, that yours will soon be over and that the world is a game, where the winners lose and the losers frequently win.  Money can’t buy you love and fame doesn’t make you happy.  But a trusted companion and a […]