Archive for the 'The Music' Category


Fred Mollin-This Week’s Podcast

Fred Mollin has a new book, “Unplugged: Stories and Secrets from a Life of Making Records, Scoring Film, and Working with the Legends of Music.” Apple: https://shorturl.at/Bx1CB     https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/183387c9-112a-48ca-96e9-3cdaa4107a16/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-fred-mollin

Brian Wilson

Spotify playlist: https://shorturl.at/neBm0 1 The Beach Boys were selling the California Dream. And I bought it hook, line and sinker. Today California is a pejorative. The whipping boy of the right. And many on the left too. They have contempt for the Golden State, primarily because living here is SO F*CKING GOOD! Sure, real estate […]

Mailbag

RE: The Stax Documentary In your review of the Stax documentary you mentioned Stax being “screwed by Jerry Wexler” such that “Atlantic ends up with all the Masters.” However, technically, the latter statement is incorrect. When Jim Stewart made the deal with Jerry Wexler, Stax (now Concord) actually retained ownership of the Masters. But that was because the deal was […]

Sly Stone

1 This is weird. Because I just started watching the Questlove documentary last night. I planned to finish up today and give you my take on it and I’m gassing up my car and my sister texts me that Sly died and… What am I gonna do, write about the doc, write about the man, […]