Subject: Re: Chris Stapleton At The Hollywood Bowl<\/p>\n
Hi Bob,<\/p>\n
Light moves faster than sound- the images are often timed to give a better experience to people farther back who make the most use of the screens.<\/p>\n
The production will calculate the best delay to cater to the largest % of the crowd, this will be lessened if there are additional screens father back which themselves may be timed to the sound as it travels<\/p>\n
Before the digital processing, analog image and audio were in sync at the stage, great for those us up close, and for the band looking at themselves- but not as good for the majority of audience.<\/p>\n
The audio will also be delayed in any rear speakers so that they are in sync with the main PA avoiding the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153parade ground echo\u00e2\u20ac\u009d we see in movies<\/p>\n
Eventide provided what were probably the first audio delays at Watkins Glen.<\/p>\n
Cheers, TS<\/p>\n
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From: Tom Johnston<\/p>\n
Subject: Re: Chris Stapleton At The Hollywood Bowl<\/p>\n
Thanks for shining the light Bob, Chris Stapleton is indeed the real deal and an Uber talented singer\/ performer. In this time we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an example of the path back to reality in the music world. But we need more examples to make the journey. \u00c2\u00a0When musicians could write, play their instrument(s), and sing in their own style the music world was genuine and had a vast array of styles. All viable.<\/p>\n
My 2 cents<\/p>\n
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From: Don Forbes<\/p>\n
Subject: Re: Chris Stapleton At The Hollywood Bowl<\/p>\n
In 200?? my niece got married in Swannee Tenn. At\u00c2\u00a0the time, Southwest had direct flights from SFO to Nashville so we flew in, spent the night in town, and hit Main Street for music. After checking out everything for two blocks, it became apparent that nothing was going on but rather tired, country\u00c2\u00a0cover bands, grinding it out. I pulled up the “local music scene” on my phone and saw \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jompson\u00c2\u00a0Bothers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, rock \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 roll, somewhere nearby. I loaded everybody in the car and headed out. We\u00c2\u00a0found the\u00c2\u00a0place\u00c2\u00a0and walked in to find maybe 10 people in the club. The band was like a throwback to some 1970s-looking southern\u00c2\u00a0rock \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 roll ensemble with this\u00c2\u00a0big shaggy-haired guy killing it on vocals and guitar.\u00c2\u00a0We only heard them\u00c2\u00a0for about 20 minutes before they quit for the evening but I was knocked out! So while my family was\u00c2\u00a0trying to hustle me out of there, I went up to the bandstand and talked to the guy. I wished him luck and ended up buying their CD or EP. “The Jompson Bros”. 4 or 5\u00c2\u00a0years later I was reading an article in Songwriter Magazine\u00c2\u00a0about Chris Stapleton, and how he had both a bluegrass band and a rock band, The Jompson Bros that it connected!\u00f0\u0178\u2122\u20ac<\/p>\n
I immediately got on the phone and called my kids saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153HEY!!!!!\u00c2\u00a0REMEMBER THAT GUY IN NASHVILLE?? THAT WAS CHRIS FRICKIN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 STAPLETON!!!!!! \u00c2\u00a0Another chapter!<\/p>\n
Love your writing, Bob!<\/p>\n
Cheers,<\/p>\n
Don<\/p>\n
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From: Robert Paris<\/p>\n
Subject: Re: The Chart Is Broken<\/p>\n
Date: May 29, 2024 at 9:02:01 PM PDT<\/p>\n
“Used to be charts impacted sales. Because retailers would order and feature more product.”<\/p>\n
Not only retailers.\u00c2\u00a0 The upshot is that “cooking” the charts also caused labels’ inventory control to order more product since they thought they had a hit on their hands and reorders would follow.\u00c2\u00a0 This provided a boon to my business as I dealt in overstocks and cutouts and enjoyed feasting on these deals.\u00c2\u00a0 I even procured Beatles product that Capitol dumped even though it was contractually prohibited.\u00c2\u00a0 Those were the days….\u00c2\u00a0 Bob Paris<\/p>\n
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From: Colin Newman<\/p>\n
Subject: Jeff- guitar-Dead & Company At The Sphere<\/p>\n
Bob, Your poignant mention of Jeff Beck moved me to respond with a small exclusive story and reveal. As Jeff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s managment team Sandra, shon and myself are creating and filming a documentary on Jeff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s # 3 Strat that he used in 2022. \u00c2\u00a0It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the main guitar he played on stage but it was the one he played the most in 2022. \u00c2\u00a0In his final tour he just played it on one song on stage but it was in his dressing room, bus and hotel throughout. He essentially lived with it. \u00c2\u00a0He played that guitar more in his last year than he did any other.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We chose this guitar to create a filmed journey through the hands of his friends, \u00c2\u00a0associates and admirers by inviting them to play and use the guitar in some cases \u00e2\u20ac\u0153on stage\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as an unannounced guest.<\/p>\n Here comes the relevance of my note to you.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As you say, when Weir and Lesh and Hart and Kreutzmann are gone, it will be over. Period. Just like with Jeff Beck. I still can’t believe he’s gone. That SOUND!<\/p>\n On the very night you saw The Dead Jeff was there in spirit and with John Mayer playing Jeff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s #3 Strat. Other uses are in process and we hope the sound and spirit of Jeff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very \u00c2\u00a0personal instrument will continue to tell his story.<\/p>\n By supporting the voyage of the guitar we are ensuring that even though Jeff is gone his legacy is still with us although no one will likely capture THAT SOUND, but his spirit can still live on through the guitar and those who carry that torch with equal passion, humility and respect.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a security nightmare as the guitar has its very own minder but we shall endeavour to continue the journey with a biography of Jeff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guitar told through the playing of this instrument by others.<\/p>\n Colin Newman, friend and co executor of Jeff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s estate.<\/p>\n ________________________________________<\/p>\n From: Shawn Mckelvey<\/p>\n Subject: Re: The Road Less Taken<\/p>\n Thank you for being you, Bob. You’re a voice of reason in a forest of hostile, conformity demanding,\u00c2\u00a0 falling trees. I don’t agree with everything you say, but the insistence of absolute “with us or against us” thinking is everywhere.<\/p>\n I even see it in Led Zeppelin groups, where if you dare to question the authorship of songs, “you’re not a real fan”. I am a “real fan”who loves Zep, but I am also realistic.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw people complain about Keith currently singing 3 songs, presumably to ease Mick’s workload, and getting attacked as, again, “not real fans”. I love 3 Keith tunes, but can absolutely see how someone else would not. God f’n help you if you say that aloud among your fellow parishioners.<\/p>\n Thanks again, I really needed to read this today.<\/p>\n ________________________________________<\/p>\n From: Michael Alex<\/p>\n Subject: MTV News archive (I created it) deletion<\/p>\n Hi Bob.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t know if you’re going to write about Paramounts deletion of MTV News digital archive, but if you are, do what you like with this (I founded MTV News digital and ran it from 1994-2007 btw)<\/p>\n The archive was my doing in 1996, as we prepared to launch daily music news online.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 At my local used record shop they sold old copies of Rolling Stone, Circus, Creem etc.\u00c2\u00a0 They were wonderful to page through\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6I turned on to Led Zep in 1975 but wanted to read what Jimmy Page was saying years earlier, and with old\u00c2\u00a0magazines I could!\u00c2\u00a0 So archiving MTV News\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 about to be launched digital first work was a no brainer. Music fans always wanted more information, more context, more history, and the archive made it available.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0We even seeded it with transcripts of select interviews from older acts with legs\u00c2\u00a0 (the Pixies, Nirvana etc) to share what fans never previously got to see or read.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Within 18 months the archived news and interviews were doing more traffic per week than the new music news coverage.\u00c2\u00a0 The archive was an easy and obvious win.\u00c2\u00a0 Music fans cared about the pasts of their favorites.\u00c2\u00a0 Over the years the archival traffic kept growing, becoming particularly huge around our hip-hop coverage.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 They were gold that kept on giving.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n That Paramount saw no value in maintaining 20+ years of music news history is mind boggling.<\/p>\n ________________________________________<\/p>\n From: Fred Goldring<\/p>\n Subject: Re: The Debate And Its Aftermath<\/p>\n Bob – I was at the event in the Hamptons yesterday and saw it with my own eyes.<\/p>\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a huge admirer of Joe Biden and I think he is a true patriot whose heart, wisdom and experience are exactly what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d want in a president. He truly cares about people and has done an amazing job against enormous headwinds (the democrats just suck at getting this information out). I went to the event hoping that Thursday was an anomaly and that there would be some logical explanation given – especially to the small group of high roller donors in attendance – but there was nothing other than he \u00e2\u20ac\u0153had a bad night\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. \u00c2\u00a0 And you would think at least he would have an impromptu conversion with his donors to allay concerns that he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think on his feet not a completely scripted speech.<\/p>\n Jill came on to \u00c2\u00a0introduce him – super strong, loud and energetic. You almost felt like she was auditioning for the job not him. Joe stood stiffly zombie-like next to her. It was like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Weekend At Bernie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Then Joe gets up to speak and weakly gives the exact same stump speech he gave at a rally in NC the day before reading off a teleprompter – to a small group of important donors, not thousands at a huge rally! And it got worse. He used an example of how when he had his aneurysm years before and the doctor told him there was a 35-40% chance he could die his doctors said he was an eternal optimist. Why the hell would his handlers write a speech that brings that up and reminds people he had an aneurysm especially at this moment? The contrast between his much more youthful wife and Joe was such that you wondered why they even had her introduce him. I spied Jeffrey Katzenberg watching with a sullen face and then walk backstage before Joe was even finished. (If you read the NYT article on Katzenberg he seems like somebody who could \u00c2\u00a0– and should – get to Joe and tell him the truth.) Because he saw exactly what I saw.<\/p>\n James Carville (who I wish they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d put in charge of the campaign) is a no bullsh*t guy who calls it as he sees it. And he said the problem is that Joe needs advisors and what he has is employees. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right; employees are afraid of losing their jobs so they tell the boss what he knows he wants to hear not what he needs to hear. \u00c2\u00a0And Joe needs to hear that he must step aside. For the good of our country and the future for our children and grandchildren. \u00c2\u00a0One thing we do know is that in a Trump second term DT will only surround himself with sycophants and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have no guardrails. That would be catastrophic and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have Project 25 and be living like in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Handmaids Tale\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n If Joe decides to stay on I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll still vote for him because the alternative is unthinkable. And because there is a difference between right and wrong, morals and no morals, narcissistic dictatorship vs putting country first and democracy vs authoritarianism and facism. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now abundantly clear that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Joe to pass the baton and save his legacy in the process. Because unfortunately what I saw and heard yesterday just confirmed that what 50 million people saw on Thursday was not a one off.<\/p>\n Fred G<\/p>\n ________________________________________<\/p>\n From: Matthew Meyers<\/p>\n Subject: Re: The Debate And Its Aftermath<\/p>\n The NYT article comments today about Biden campaign hurrying to reassured big donors is the real article.\u00c2\u00a0 Readers comments say it all.<\/p>\n “Top Biden Officials Seek to Calm Donors: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBreathe Through the Nose\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 – The senior Biden officials downplayed the political fallout of President Biden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s debate performance but provided precious little new information.”<\/p>\n Free link (scroll down the page to click on the blue bar at the bottom of the page for reader comments): https:\/\/t.ly\/1wYcW<\/p>\n ________________________________________<\/p>\n From: Kevin Andrusia<\/p>\n Subject: The Debate<\/p>\n Hi Bob<\/p>\n Thank you for weighing in on the debate, both with the analysis and the Napster item today. I tried sharing both on my Facebook feed and they were both taken down, TWICE, by their “technology” for attempting to mislead or share falsehoods (my words, but that’s the gist).\u00c2\u00a0 They have never done this before with anything of yours I share.\u00c2\u00a0 Ever.\u00c2\u00a0 Only since the debate.<\/p>\n Welcome to America. The takeover has already begun.<\/p>\n Kevin Andrusia<\/p>\n Orlando, FL<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Subject: Re: Chris Stapleton At The Hollywood Bowl Hi Bob, Light moves faster than sound- the images are often timed to give a better experience to people farther back who make the most use of the screens. 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